The Hotel Seiryu Kyoto Kiyomizu

This is a project that utilizes the former Shimizu Elementary School building, which has a history of about 90 years, in Shimizu, Kyoto, and converts it into a hotel. While inheriting the characteristic design, it has been reborn as a hotel with modern comfort. We were in charge of architectural design supervision, interiors design, layout, and FF&E concept design and construction.

Shimizu Elementary School is one of the schools that has been highly evaluated for its unique architecture in terms of location, exterior decoration, and interiors concept design. Based on the hotel's concept of "engraving memories and linking them to the future," we paid the utmost respect to the historical Western architecture and its internal space, and created a concept design that revives memories while preserving them. In addition, we combined architecture as a new function with the interior space to express nostalgia and newness.

[Customer issues/requests]
It was necessary to design it so that it would function as a hotel while making the most of the existing historical elementary school architecture. It was also necessary to hold discussions on how the hotel should be accepted in the Kyoto area.

【solution】
We worked with creators on everything from architecture, landscape, interior, FF&E, artwork, graphics, uniforms, and every detail to create a completely new, one-of-a-kind space.
While the corridors and stairs where elementary school students used to run around remain, when you open the door of the classroom where the children were studying, you can enter a completely different contemporary world.
In order to maximize the value of the existing details that have carved the history of the architecture and interior space, we did not insist on the materials and were particular about what complements the materials. The reflection of the material reflected in the semi-gloss enhances the existing architectural design. In addition, we aimed to create a space composition that can only be enjoyed here by harmonizing the total concept design coordination of artwork, graphics, uniforms, and the interiors and FF&E concept design in a well-balanced manner.

<Our project members>
[Sales and Project Management] Toru Moenuki
[design, layout design supervision] A.N.D.: Ryu Kosaka, Shohei Urata, Hiroki Yasuda / Hiroyuki Nishikawa
[FF&E concept design] A.N.D.: Kaori Sano