E-square Hotel

Location : University Road, Pune
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Client : E-Square Hotel

Hotel interior design is crucial to making any guest feel welcome. Hotel owners know best the importance of quality accommodation and ensure that this is present from the first step guests take into the hotel interior. From creating a welcoming hotel lobby design to ensuring a comforting hotel room layout, the goal is to turn a hotel room into a temporary home.

Pune based firm AVA has used wood to build custom beds and expansive desks for the rooms of this boutique hotel in the city. The E-Square hotel is located in the Pune neighbourhood of Shivajinagar, and is housed in a five star commercial property that includes restaurants, cinemas and shopping. The local studio overhauled the mixed-use building, to create a boutique hotel with 32 rooms.

Each room features at one large window, (two windows in case of the suite) that fill the spaces with natural light, and has a minimal yet homey aesthetic with plywood built-ins and white walls.

The three types of hotel rooms differ from one another in layout, but are cohesive in their use of the custom wood furniture. Rooms use an efficient layout are organized perpendicular to a corridor with their windows facing outside. Rooms are spacious with a window at the end.

The wood elements form bed constructions that span the length of the rooms, as well as desktops and cabinets. In an effort to minimize the cost of furniture, the elements in the rooms were mostly built from plywood – a cost-effective millwork solution that gives identity to rooms. For the beds, the frame is fixed above dark colored recessed legs creating a floating effect.

Expansive desks enhance the length of the rooms. "This element transforms from a desk space to the niche just above the television while acting as a functional graphic that leads the eye between and across the space. Dark wooden floors and white painted walls, with furnishings and accents in complementary colors keep the rooms minimal.The hotel rooms are also designed to feel lived-in, with decorative elements, artwork and chairs.