All public spaces and guestrooms in Park Plaza Utrecht, Refurbished by Atellior
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The renovation of the Park Plaza Utrecht Hotel in the Netherlands included a detailed makeover of 120 rooms and public spaces. The interior concept was inspired by the De Stijl Group, especially Theo van Doesburg.
Park Plaza Utrecht is centrally located close to the city’s central station and a host of lively bars, exclusive boutiques and extraordinary wharf cellars housing cafés and terraces nestle beside the beautiful canals.
The investor's aim was primarily to have the hotel reconstructed in phases meaning that it were to remain open during the entire process, and by the end, a newly equipped hotel was to be presented with a new story to accompany it. The main guests of the Park Plaza Utrecht are working professionals; the Client wished to bring as much ease as possible to the often draining experience of a business trip, through the creation of spaces which created a relaxing form of working from own's own home.
The ground floor features the reception with a lobby and bar, the restaurant with a separate private dining area, gym and bathrooms. In line with today’s trends of hotel spatial planning, the lobby area, with no visual barriers, flows into the bar area, and then to the restaurant, encouraging the guests to use more of the facilities the hotel has to offer. In addition to this, 120 rooms are spread across the first to sixth floors of the hotel.
The rooms are different by the type of bed (Double and Twin beds) but otherwise have identical floor plans. The seventh floor hold conference facilities with the main hall able to be split into 3 smaller spaces. This floor has seven more meeting rooms with a lobby tying all the conference spaces together. The inspiration behind the selected colour scheme used in floors one to seven was, "Simultaneous Composition XXIV" by Theo van Doesburg.
Awareness of the hotel’s context and the translation of this information into a space allowed the hotel to tell a story about its unique locality and ultimately what it has to offer.