2019-Lighting Design Awards Winner
2019-Taiwan Good Design Award Hotel Silver award
2019-Asian Lighting Design Awards Award of Excellent Light
2019-Art Display China Crystal Kylin Awards Lighting & Shadow In Space Awards Gold Awards
2020-LIT Lighting Design Awards Winner in Hotel and Restaurants Lighting category
2020-WIN Awards Lighting Projects Sliver
2020-The 15th lighting engineering design award Second prize
We proposed the concept of “illumination by moonlight” for this hotel (utilizing lighting under full moon as the basis for human behavior in hotel). It is created based on environmental condition of Shoou Xi Wetland Park, and decrease interference of artificial lighting as much as possible, while lessening its negative effect on people.
Under such concept, not only did we need to spend more time on analyzing features of the site, and find how did local space respond to the lighting environment, we also had to evaluate emotional changes of residents of hotel. Every light had to be carefully positioned, and its effect on human emotion should be maximized.
We removed lighting as much as possible from the range of people’s vision, since we aimed to maximize the natural view of Xixi, most lightings were installed in a lower height. The client objected to it in the beginning. Therefore the client added more plant lightings and illuminated decorations, hoping to generate layered lighting experience. After comparing the difference between two lighting systems on site, the client agreed to our proposal at the end. It doesn’t necessarily mean that lighting could disturb the environment. It could improve our concept, such as erasing the uneasiness of the darkened environment around the hotel. After analyzing where customers’ attention would be attracted, we chose several locations in woods to install solar-powered lightings which could emit faint light at night. It reminded us of light of firefly.
The natural scenery of the wetland of Xixi is both outward and inward features of the hotel. Through lighting, customers could grasp its meaning. Thus it becomes the key for the hotel to achieve sustainable management.