Project Overview
Holiday Inn Sydney Airport is a 3.5-star airport hotel built in the early 1990’s.
It has a total of 252 guestrooms and is in the heart of Mascot, which is seeing increasingly new commercial and apartment buildings replace many of the light industrial buildings that typified this South Sydney suburb in the past.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Team
Mike Watson
Project Brief
The owners were clear from the outset that they wanted a more luxurious interior than the normal Holiday Inn brand.
With an increasingly crowded bunch of hotels in the airport precinct targeting the same travelling guests, they wanted their room offering to stand out from the crowd.
We felt the room design needed to have a strong visual impact given increasingly most guests choose their hotel online.
Project Innovation/Need
This guestroom design approach was ‘loose fit’; individual custom FFE items (including joinery):
This allowed the FFE to be made offshore as the owner wanted to use a manufacturer in Asia they knew.
This minimised the need for extensive site measuring.
This maximised the standardisation of the FFE items leading to significant cost savings
Design Challenge
Given the short term stay nature of airport hotels coupled with the gritty urban location the main design challenge was to not fall into the trap of assuming that all the guest want at an airport hotel is a comfy bed a good shower.
Blessed with a generous room footprint, good natural light, and supportive Owners, we set about designing an FFE focused hotel room which breaks the mould of many generic airport hotels.
Our aim was to design a stylish room rather than focus on the short stay mentality of most airport hotels. We designed each FFE item as individual pieces, which work together as a family using shared finishes and details.
All bathrooms have been fully refurbished. Gone is the shower over bath; replaced by a generous shower which is complimented by a stylish new vanity. The finishes are large format stone-look wall and floor tiles and real stone to the vanity and wall shelf. Concealed mirror lighting adds a stylish touch to the bathrooms.
Sustainability
All timbers used in joinery and furniture were from sustainable sources and all glues used in production were formaldehyde free.
Water based paints used exclusively.
Low VOC used in the production of the carpets combined with water-based glues and recyclable underlay.
Low wattage LED lighting throughout.
WELS rated water saving tapware used
Interior Design - Hospitality - Stay
This award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors where people sleep, accomodation such as hotels, furnished apartments, resorts and even private clubs. Judging consideration is given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes, aesthetic presentation and functionality. Consideration is also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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