G Hotel Kelawai
2015 | Penang, Malaysia | Commercial, Hospitality
A typology of flux and shifts.
White mesh, held between white ribbons of overhangs, stagger across the elevation in a visual arrhythmia—expressing the flux and movement that characterise the hotel typology and the wider zeitgeist. When night falls, the building comes alive in a dance of light and colour to animate the city. Aluminium battens, the product of a local industry, is applied iteratively to define the podium and lobby interiors. Entry is into a triple-volume cage, whose singularity of tone and texture is modulated by soft light and proportioned openings.
This receptacle is also a spatial dispenser that conducts guests via stairways and portals to surrounding volumes containing lounge, reception, as well as other functions on the upper floors.
“G Hotel Kelawai aspires to be a more contemporary, outspoken expression of its time and place.”
“flux and movement […] characterise the hotel typology and the wider zeitgeist”
