ARCGIS 10.3 CHINA PREFECTURE CITY SERIES
Related story Nendo-designed Escher exhibition opens at Melbourne's National Gallery of VictoriaĪccording to the studio, this pink palette also resembles cotton candy and marshmallows – colours that they associate with "sweet dreams", playfully hinting towards the bedroom setting.Īny components indicative of the real world, such as light fixtures and electronic appliances, have been concealed behind a series of fake doors painted in black, maintaining the immaculate and whimsical nature of the interior. Inspired by the work of Dutch graphic artist Escher – known for his eye-tricking illustrations – the studio set out to create a "mysterious, infinite and impossible space", merging 2D and 3D elements to produce a series of optical illusions. "Some obscure thoughts started to emerge."
"After visiting the site for the first time, which was just an unfinished, concrete room, we saw the opportunity to do something special, spatially, as the space was unusually high and felt almost like a chapel," said the studio. Guesthouse owner Feifei Yi asked the studio for a creative and otherworldly renovation that would reflect the nature of the hotel as a "hideout from the bustling world", while making the best use of the existing seven-metre-high structure with a pitched roof. These guest rooms are called Dream and Maze. Located by the Li River in Guilin, a prefecture city in the northeast of China's Guangxi region, the guesthouse is comprised of differently themed rooms, with two designed by Shenzhen-based Studio 10.