2019 Architecture Awards

91 2019 Architecture Awards BUILD May19369 rawing on the immense expertise of its staff, URSIDE Design focuses on historical and physical contexts, challenges tradition and convention, and promotes innovation and intelligence. Recently the firm has launched its own hotel brand, URSIDE Hotel, a new model of an unconventional hotel, with multi-living areas, multiple dwelling, co-working spaces, creative catering and diverse events. It is located in the original Urban Best Practices Area of Shanghai EXPO 2010, which was a part of the factory of Jiangnan Shipyard, founded in early 20th Century. The five partners of URSIDE Hotel are very different, with varied backgrounds including that of a structural engineer, architect, interior designer, branding and graphic designer, and luxury product importer. Together they aim to make a new way of living through the development of URSIDE Hotel which they intend to develop, design and manage collectively. The facade of URSIDE Hotel has minimal impact from the original building, and it keeps the continuous brick facade like URSIDE Design: Best Interdisciplinary Architecture Practice - China Based in Shanghai, China, URSIDE Design is an interdisciplinary architectural, interior, graphic and branding design and research office offering a wide range of services. As part of our overview of some of this year’s Architecture Awards winners we profile the firm to learn more about the services provided. D the whole area. The entrance is pushed to show respect to the context. In the unconventional lobby of the 1st floor, there is no front desk, but are comfortable lounges, dining area, co-working space, and bar area. It serves as a public living room with multi- functions mixed. Behind the open space, there are 13 SOLOs, which are prefabricated containers of 2M*2M*2M. Every SOLO is a private room for one person and is only 10cm thick with structure, thermal, soundproof and wires hidden inside and high windows for natural light. Each one is like a luxury train trunk and placed on the different datum. There are three paths in the SOLO area, which is like walking in a forest and connected with the public living room. There are 25 loft-like guest rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Inside each guest room of 4.5-6 Meters in height, the bed is placed on the upper level with the minimal size of a cantilevered structure, and the living room is spacious. The corridors on the third floor are full of natural light from the opened skylight roof. In all eight rooms in the middles, the upper bed area has both high windows and skylights. This allows enough natural light during daytime and guests to enjoy the moon and stars in bed. There are 38 guest rooms in URSIDE Hotel, of which there are 15 different types, enabling the hotel to offer diverse living experience whenever a guest stays. Through this diverse range of rooms and unique spaces, the hotel aims to create an experience “for living not just for staying.” The varied public spaces on every level provide potentials for more creative and custom-made events, like exhibitions, reviews, performances, etc. URSIDE Hotel established itself as a luxury brand with fine dining, special house cocktails, coffees, slippers, toothbrush, and its scent. Ultimately, URSIDE Design is keen to drive URSIDE Hotel to even greater success over the coming years, and this will remain the firm’s ongoing focus as it looks towards an exciting future. Company: URSIDE Design Name: Fei Wang Address: Huayuangang Road 60# B4-3A, Shanghai, 200011, China Web Address: ursidehotel.com Telephone: +8618616371080