What are the interior design standards for five-star hotels?

There are certain standards for hotel star rating. To achieve the ideal star rating, the hotel must strictly follow the hotel star rating standards and some hotel building codes during the design process. Recently, eight 5-star hotels in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have been surveyed. Based on this survey, this article is a conceptual summary of some matters that should be paid attention to in hotel design.

1. Hotel Overview: Hotel design should take transportation organization as the starting point. The transportation organization method with different functions divides the hotel into two parts that are both independent and interrelated: the public part of the hotel (referred to as the "front hall") is often a symbol of the hotel's image and quality, and also accounts for a large portion of the hotel's investment amount. The main part, therefore, is often valued by architects and becomes the focus of design; while the organization of the hotel's service management part (referred to as "back hall") is mainly derived from the hotel's business management model. Due to professional limitations, this part is often not taken seriously by architects. In fact, the back hall is the guarantee for the high-speed operation of a hotel. In the final analysis, hotel design is for the purpose of hotel operation and profit. Therefore, it can be said that the comfort and ease of identification of public space, and the convenience and orderliness of management organization are the goals and guarantees of hotel operations.

2. Front pavilion: The design of this part must make passengers feel considerate. The convenient and easy-to-find service areas here; the thoughtful and sincere service attitude; and the unique comfortable and peaceful atmosphere created by the friendly decorative touch, pleasant environmental colors and lighting, comfortable temperature and humidity, and considerate furniture settings are crucial success factor.

1. Lobby design The hotel lobby should give people the first (and usually the most unforgettable) impression more than other places, so it can be said that the lobby determines the tone of a hotel. In terms of interior design, guests entering the lobby should feel comfortable and safe like home. In terms of streamline design, guests should be able to easily see the main service desk and elevator hall.

The size of the lobby mainly depends on the number of guest rooms in the hotel and other related public space organization. The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Beijing and the Venetian Hotel in Shenzhen both belong to the "Crown" series of brands. The lobbies of these two hotels have relatively independent functions and are not large in scale. When adopting this design method, a separate lounge should be arranged near the lobby. Since the lobby and lounge are both small spaces, the floor height does not need to be very high. The design style is graceful and fresh, with a holiday atmosphere. The lobbies of modern large business hotels usually adopt a design method that combines the foyer, lounge and public transportation space. This method is flexible in area allocation. It can make the area ratio of these three non-profit parts appropriately flexible, and at the same time help create a grand space. Hotels that adopt this design technique include Century Jinyuan Hotel in Beijing, Grand Hyatt Oriental, Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai, etc. This kind of hotel layout usually uses horizontal expansion to arrange the lounge and transportation space, and also horizontally expand the main service desk, western restaurant, shop, elevator hall, foyer bar, washroom, public toilet, luggage and leading to the banquet hall. Traffic channels, etc. This layout allows passengers to easily reach the main service desk (usually the depth of the lounge is one and a half to two spans of column grids), and can also easily reach the elevator hall and lounge. It is both convenient for passengers and beneficial to management. In terms of the street facade, this design technique can strengthen and shape the brightly lit and warm business atmosphere of the hotel.

2. General service desk

The main service desks of several hotels surveyed this time all adopt the island style instead of the traditional niche style. The benefit of rolling out the service desk is to make it more approachable and considerate. The size of these hotels is roughly around 400 rooms. The total length of the general service desk is mostly about 15 meters. It combines flight ticket, message, simple business and other functions to make it convenient for passengers to use.

3. Elevator hall and elevator equipment

The elevator hall should be arranged in a place that is easily visible from the hotel entrance or front desk registration desk. The location of the elevator hall at the guest room level should also be considered. It is best to locate the elevator in the middle of the corridor to minimize the total distance traveled by passengers in any direction.

Judging from foreign experience, the number of elevators is usually 0.7/100 rooms. However, in actual projects, the grade of the hotel and the convenience of passengers are often taken into consideration, and the elevators are arranged in groups of 4-6 on both sides of the elevator hall. It is more appropriate for the net width of the elevator hall to be about 4 meters. You can consider installing long mirrors in the elevator hall to facilitate passengers to adjust their attire. The lighting arrangement of the elevator hall should be different from that of the walkway, and the illumination should be increased. Avoid using long and narrow elevator cars, because most domestic passengers are accustomed to carrying some luggage with them, and a too narrow car is inconvenient for passengers at the rear to enter and exit. Generally, it is appropriate to choose a wide flat car of 2 meters x 1.5 meters. The lobbies of almost all 5-star hotels are open to the public. For the sake of safety, some hotels have added a control system in the elevator car. Passengers can enter the relevant floors with their room cards, but outsiders cannot reach the hotel guest room floor. This design method not only provides safety protection, but also brings certain inconvenience to passengers, and its rationality needs to be further verified.

4. Guest room floor corridor

The key point of corridor design is to avoid giving passengers a long and narrow feeling. To do this, you can add local lighting and decoration. A very common practice now is to group adjacent guest room aisles and bathrooms into two groups. The clear distance between the corridors between the two groups of bathroom exterior walls facing each other on both sides of the corridor should be 1.8 meters; the clear distance between the corridors facing the guest room doors must be Above 2.2 meters. In this way, by increasing the distance between the corridors outside the doors of the 4 groups of rooms, a corridor will be formed between every 4 rooms. This creates an interesting spatial sequence. The illumination of the hall in front of the guest room should be appropriately increased. There are two benefits to this: first, the guest can clearly see the room number, and second, the guest will not feel unsafe due to low illumination or shadows.

5. Room size and depth of guest rooms: Except for the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai, the standard room size of the eight five-star hotels surveyed this time does not exceed 4 meters by 8 meters, and even 3.6 meters by 7.5 meters. Small size (such as Grand Hyatt Oriental Hotel). However, from a sensory perspective, the size of 4.2 meters by 8 meters is a relatively comfortable size for a five-star hotel, and is also conducive to the layout of underground parking spaces.

Bathroom: Most bathrooms in five-star hotels are larger than 6 square meters, and usually have both a bathtub and a shower compartment. At this time, the size of the bathtub can be slightly smaller. Be sure to choose a silent toilet. It is advisable to install two wash basins. The bathroom should be the place that best reflects the humane design of the hotel. If possible, consider the following aspects:

1. The toilet is best located in a hidden place, especially not facing the door or washbasin.

2. If there are no lockers under the sink, footlights can be installed to reduce shadows.

3. A cosmetic mirror with a magnifying function can be added, and a surface light can be installed next to the mirror.

4. An outdoor unit can be installed at the top of the toilet exhaust duct to reduce the working noise of the exhaust fan and enhance the exhaust effect.

Supporting facilities: The power distribution design of the guest room should be meticulous and thoughtful and easy to use. The distribution box is usually designed in the suspended ceiling in conjunction with the air conditioning manhole. The depth of the wardrobe should be greater than 0.6 meters, and the total width should be greater than 1 meter. There must also be a place to store spare parts. There should be good lighting design in the closet. The safe can be placed under a wardrobe or TV cabinet. The broadband network socket is usually installed in the dresser drawer in conjunction with the mobile phone charging power supply. Suite design: Suites are often located at the end of the corridor or at the corner of the building (such as the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai). Create a small hallway with a door between the living room and bedroom of the suite so that each room can be rented out if necessary. It is best for each room to have its own bathroom for individual rental use.

6. Banquet Hall

The grand banquet hall of a five-star hotel is usually no less than 40 meters by 24 meters (60 standard tables can be arranged), and the net height is usually 6 meters. above. When an excessively large space is not needed, movable partitions can be used to divide the large space into several smaller spaces. But be aware that this approach does not apply to spaces that are too high. At the same time, pay attention to the sound insulation effect of partition walls. The banquet hall must have a front hall. Since the area occupied by standing people is about 1/3 of that of seated people, the ideal area of ??the banquet hall front hall is 1/3 of the banquet hall area, and usually 1/4 is also acceptable.

Large hotel banquet halls generally have the function of being rented out. At this time, an independent banquet hall foyer is particularly important. There should be a parking lot outside the foyer that can accommodate buses, and there should be a return space in front of the door.

7. Recreation Center

The recreation center of a five-star hotel should include fitness, bodybuilding, dressing, sauna and swimming. Usually these projects can have a different entrance and exit. The fitness part is designed as an open space to highlight the sports theme. The dressing and bathing sections should be open to both fitness and swimming events. Considering the safety and leisure characteristics of guests, swimming pools generally take the form of paddling pools with a water depth of about 1.2 meters. Indoor illumination should be controlled based on the amount of outdoor natural light and the number of users. The lights on the side walls of the Shenzhen Venice Hotel swimming pool can slowly change colors, activating the leisure and entertainment atmosphere. There should be a considerable area of ??resting space around the swimming pool, and a certain green area should be allocated. Winters are long in the north, and the vibrant green plants look particularly vivid in the cold winter. Humanized design should always be implemented in hotel design. In addition to anti-slip and privacy requirements, the hotel's changing rooms must also consider the age, height and other characteristics of the guests. For example, the upper locker of the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai is equipped with a handle that can lower the clothes hanger, which is very convenient for short passengers.

3. Back Hall:

Although the back hall is rarely seen by tourists, it has an impact on the entire hotel operation in terms of graphic design

The biggest portion. The main goals of this part are management and efficiency. In the design, special attention should be paid to the connection position between the back hall

part and the front hall part.

1. Cargo

An operating hotel has work of purchasing, unloading, accepting, storing, etc. almost all day long. Managing goods to avoid loss is an important task. In addition, rain protection facilities should be provided above the unloading platform to prevent the goods from getting wet.

2. Security

Employee entrances and exits should usually be close to or close to the cargo receiving and receiving area. Since thieves usually try to enter from the logistics area, these two areas can be monitored at the same time. The security storage room is also a place often used by thieves. It is best to arrange it in a position where it can be seen from the mailing and receiving office, and try not to use a security well. After workers punch in, they should be divided into two flow lines: one is the flow line for kitchen staff, and the other is the flow line for other employees. All of the above considerations are based on passenger safety as the primary purpose.

3. Room service

Modern hotels generally do not have floor service desks. Locating the guest room and spare parts warehouse close to the independent freight elevator and air-conditioning machine room is conducive to zoning and management. The fire elevator can also be used as a freight elevator. Passenger safety is ensured by strengthening security monitoring and using electronic passenger keys to control elevators (such as the Four Seasons Hotel in Shanghai).

4. Kitchen and laundry room

Although the current material supply means that the kitchen no longer needs as much storage space as in the past, the innovation of kitchen equipment still requires sufficient flexible area. . The process design of professional kitchenware companies is conducive to ensuring the integrity, convenience, safety and forward-lookingness of kitchen design. When designing the kitchen and laundry room, ventilation and exhaust functions must be fully dealt with to create a good working environment.

4. Decoration design:

Decoration design is the most detailed and direct reflection of the hotel's grade.

Decoration design also often affects the construction cost of a hotel. Therefore, the decoration design must be closely coordinated with the architectural design and fully connected. It can be said that architectural design provides bones and blood to hotel design; decoration design provides skin and appearance to hotel design.