Southwest Grand Hotel

The hotel is located near Kokusai Street in Naha City and has a total of 88 guest rooms. It features a variety of spaces, including four restaurants, a pool, a jet bath, a sauna, and a gym. Inspired by Okinawa's unique mix of diverse cultures, the hotel's concept design concept was mid-century modern, and we aimed to create a hotel with a story that makes it seem as if it had been standing there for a long time.

The client requested that the guest rooms be finished in a way that would not be influenced by trends, and in particular that they refrain from using sheets and wallpaper, which do not easily acquire a unique character through aging, and that they limit the use of downlights, which did not exist in the mid-century era, as much as possible.

In the guest rooms, in order to balance cost and texture, we used a lot of flooring materials for the floors, waist-high walls and fixtures, while limiting the number of materials to achieve economies of scale, which led to the solution of the problem.
In addition, we adopted traditional spray painting and roller painting methods for each part, with the intention of creating a continuity between the exterior and interior finishes and creating shadows through the subtle unevenness of the paint.In addition, in the lighting plan for the guest rooms, we ensured brightness in the living areas with indirect lighting and decorative lighting, realizing a space that uses as few downlights as possible.