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Sleeping Lab B&B Shanghai

Atelier d'More

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
7.21
7.43
7.71
7.50
7.46
Veronica Givone
Veronica Givone Managing Director Hospitality at IA Interior Architects
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5
5.75
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
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5
6.5
Stefan Weil
Stefan Weil CCO at Atelier Markgraph
The kinetic chandelier looks great...
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5
6.5
Gudy Herder
Gudy Herder Trend Consultant at Eclectic Trends
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6
5
5.75
Omar Abdelghafour
Omar Abdelghafour Founder Principal at Light Space Design
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6
5
6
Justine Fox
Justine Fox Cofounder | Colour Specialist at Calzada Fox
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7
6
6.5
Leni Popovici
Leni Popovici Founding Director and Partner at KAP Studios
Beautifully hand-crafted individual...
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8
7
3
5.75
Liam Doyle
Liam Doyle Principal at Jump Studios
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5
6.5
Christiaan Fokkema
Christiaan Fokkema Partner at Hollandse Nieuwe
Beautiful craftsmanship and effect...
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7
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5
6
Ruud Belmans
Ruud Belmans Creative Director at WeWantMore
Beautiful contrast with the environ...
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7
5
6.25
Tina Norden
Tina Norden Partner at Conran and Partners
A gorgeous space and the installati...
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7
5
5
5.25
Sonia Tomic
Sonia Tomic Senior Associate, Head of Furniture & Materials at Universal Design Studio
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6
6
5
5.75
Yifan Wu
Yifan Wu Cofounder at Sò Studio
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7
7
6
6.5
Mengjie Liu
Mengjie Liu Cofounder at Sò Studio
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6
7
5
6
Client
Sleeping Lab
Floor area
450 ㎡
Completion
2020
Chief Architect
Chief Architect
photographer
Linshan

The project is located in a village near Disney in Pudong, Shanghai, it is a branch of the Sleeping Lab B&B. The client commissioned Atelier d’More to transform a rural residential house into a boutique B&B. We believe that there is a fairy tale dream in the heart of every adult coming to Disney, so we intended to create a fairy tale space for adults, where is warm and pure, different from the outside world, so that people can temporarily forget where they are. The construction area of the building is 450㎡, it was originally used as residential buildings. We retained the original layout of the first floor and converted the second and third floors into nine guest rooms with private bathrooms. The first floor of the B&B is a reception hall. In the early stage of this project, we asked the construction team to demolish the decoration of the house to restore the original appearance of the space. The moment the plasterboard ceiling was removed and the original concrete floor of the building itself revealed, we decided that the ceiling doesn't need any more decoration. The exposed concrete ceiling and warm wooden furniture will give a mild, rustic and original flavor. The welcoming shoe rack at the entrance, the display shelf in the lounge area and the bar in the dining area are selected in a semi-permeable material, and the space becomes lighter as light passes through them. The assembly nodes for the shoe rack and display rack are designed and customized by the chief architects who were involved in everything from drawing to assembling, which not only helped the owner to reduce the cost, but also completed an interesting design practice. The second floor and the third floor are guest rooms. We made different designs for different rooms. The curved ceiling is made to shelter the pipes that water and electricity pass through. On the other hand, it is also designed to infuse the architectural sense into the interior, creating a small world in each room. Entering different rooms is like entering a different fairy tale, and the protagonist of the story will be each guest who stays. The project carried out an in-depth study on the use of materials and construction methods, in which we completed a low-cost construction practice. All the furniture in the house is custom designed by us. Instead of using composite and chemical synthesis technology, we used birch plywood and adopt tenon plug structure to reduce the use of cementing compound.