We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Lichen Ding about their original and creative Hotel design work. Lichen Ding is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original hotel works.
Lichen Ding ("LD") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work New Beacon Hotel. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
LD : The project is designed to create an interior space with oriental artistic conception and modern aesthetic feeling with the charm of the architectural form of the ancient historical capital.
LD : The typical symmetrical layout of Chinese style has the body characteristics rich in rhythm and order, and integrates the etiquette culture elements into the modern space, so that the millennial royal life style of ritual sense can be infiltrated and inherited in the modern design context.
LD : Will continue to participate in the competition, so that people around the world to see the project.
LD : Generally, customers trust our intuition and judgment, and are directly entrusted by customers to design with full power. As the person in charge of this project, I personally want to let guests experience and feel something from the design.
LD : This is a customized design for customers, we hope and is the only one that meets local characteristics
LD : Through the perception of the local scenery and folk culture
LD : Business reception, travel and vacation, family and children
LD : The design presentation is made up of three entry courtyards and progressive contextual system related spaces. The space and time are packed in a container of combination of the virtual and the real. Through the contrast of materials and the infinite change of light and shadow, and the unique charm of the project with the combination of the imperial vein, the urban vein and the cultural vein is created by using the fine and greasy features.
LD : This is the client company ’s own name, which already existed when I received the design task
LD : AutoCAD，3D MAX，Photoshop
LD : The magic space that art corridor allows people to enter has a unique experience of interaction between space and visual illusion.
LD : I completed this work with my design team
LD : The whole space seems to have no boundary, no focus, infinite extension of the space, and gradual integration of indoor and outdoor, so that visitors can instantly become a "Time Traveler" through the classical and modern, the present and the future based on the interpretation of space materials, light and shadow, and perception.
LD : Design studies the relationship between people and space, but the timeliness of space is also worthy of attention. The memory of the past often becomes the trigger of the potential emotional resonance of the space, while the classical architectural style is gorgeous and noble in the performance of the space. The design regards the case as a space-time station and opens the past and the future with modern design techniques.
LD : The difference in the design of this project lies in the exploration of interesting spatial layouts on a limited scale. Attempts are made to design the interior space in the form of architectural design. Everywhere in the space, a picture with a sense of space and artistic composition can be captured.
LD : After a period of understanding on the competition website, I deeply felt the charm of the competition. The page pictures on the website were beautiful, and the rules and fees of the competition made people feel friendly.
LD : I think in our career, in addition to doing some business projects, it will be more meaningful to participate in social projects. Otherwise, our career can only make the world look better, better looking and more useful. That’s all. Here I want to quote a famous saying. “We don’t ask to be eternal beings, we only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.” — Antoine De Saint Exupéry
