With Park Inn hotel making its debut in Poland, JOI-Design, in partnership with Krakow-based Ovotz Design Lab, was charged with conceiving an interior style that seamlessly intertwined with the bold shapes of the new-build structure developed by
J Mayer H Architecture.
Peter Joehnk, managing director of JOI-Design, said, “Park Inn as a brand is also a four-star business hotel that is modern, light and bright, contemporary and clear. With a standardized bedroom scheme and some degree of individualization in the public areas, the challenge was to differentiate the hotel through design yet retain brand recognition.”
This was achieved through the concept ‘inside out’, or creating a design that transports the powerful visual language of the architecture to the hotel’s public areas. The building’s strong horizontal and angular lines are interpreted through the inlaid pattern of the floor tiles, the racetrack inset of the stairwell enclosure and, most evidently, in the black lacquered reception desk that doubles as a monolithic sculpture.
The front desk provided an ideal opportunity to integrate Park Inn’s iconic red, blue, yellow and green stripes into the lobby design without necessitating that the other public areas’ color palettes adopt these hues.
The chain’s vibrant emblem is interpreted as a column of backlit colored glass which, when placed behind the desk’s inky ebony, emerges as a singular focal point against the neutral background.
As the foyer has very few interior walls, the varying functions of its spaces rely upon the furniture and flooring shapes for delineation. The strong modern forms of the lobby’s décor are expressly drawn from the radiuses and angles of the structural envelope.
The curves found in the lobby’s lounge chair seats, wall covering pattern and interior columns, mirror the rounded edges of the exterior windows, while the vertical mullions are reflected in the pendant lights hung above the stairwell.
The lounge and elongated bar adjacent to the lobby provides for a relaxing and invigorating gathering space. Across from the lounge, lies the RGB bar and grill, an all-day dining restaurant serving breakfast, light snacks or signature dishes from their full service menu.
Free flowing sheer dividers hung from the ceiling create nooks that lend a sense of intimacy to the open floor plan, while diners are reminded of the building’s architectural envelope by the rounded form of the backlit soffit recessed into the ceiling.
In the guestrooms, JOI-Design embraced Park Inn’s colorful brand symbol by contrasting its intense hues with either rich cobalt or warm cherry tones. By adding an accent band of the lively stripe along the edge of the bed throw, the rooms instantly come to life.
