Hilton Hotel in Bandung by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

Hilton is one of five-star hotels in Bandung, Indonesia, with modern contemporary design, designed by Singapore-based architecture firm Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects. Hilton Hotels has 186-room contemporary urban business hotel with world-class conferencing and event function facilities catering to both business and leisure travelers. The hotel has a resort-inspired conceptualization by the topography of the city of Bandung, with its surrounding volcanic mountain range, whilst integrating Javanese culture and visually engaging the mountainscape. 

Hilton Hotels in Bandung by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

The resulting integration of the local urban and geographical characters shapes a seamless experience throughout the hotel that dissolves the boundaries between the inside and outside of the hotel and encourages interactions between hotel guests and locals within its public promenade. The Hilton Bandung has challenged the way hotels are designed and experienced in the Asian urban context. The building stands out, capturing the city’s present state of development, but its usage of glass and stone-covered walls resonates with the city’s heritage and therefore engages emotionally with its largely Indonesian guests. The building does not compete with the predominantly Art Deco-styled buildings in the area influenced by Bandung’s Dutch colonial past but complements and reinforces the tradition of glamorous travel with which Bandung has historically been associated.

Lobby Design Hilton Hotels by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

After Indonesian independence on 1945 onwards, the city experienced a rapid development and urbanization that has transformed Bandung from idylic town into a dense 15,000 people/km2 metropolitan area, a living space for over 2 million people. Although now densely populated, Bandung still retains the charm that attracts weekend travellers, visitors and business travellers from Jakarta and beyond. Bandung’s topography, with its surrounding volcanic mountain range, inspired the response to sculpt the urban ground plane into a landform of ‘cliffs’ and ‘valleys’, and a central atrium riverbed around which the hotel public spaces are organised. The landscaped ground plane is folded into a massive stone canyon wall facing the lobby, its carved texture inspired by a geometric Javanese batik pattern. As it extends upwards, it wraps up to the reception, ballroom, business center and spa and culminates in the rooftop leisure retreat. The dramatic unfolding of spaces throughout the architecture, landscape and interior design offers a holistic multisensory experience imbued with the spirit of Bandung.

Bedroom Design Hilton Hotel in Bandung by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

A series of bridges and stairs enable the smooth flow of guest traffic to the ballroom, dining room, business centre and spa. Most dramatic is the asymmetrical cantilevered spiral stair on which guests promenade in droves to the ballroom at weddings and events. At the leisure roof garden, modern interpretations of indigenous Javanese huts sit alongside the lush landscaped pool, providing intimate and shaded lounging spaces for family groups. An outdoor restaurant overlooking the pool completes the resort atmosphere.

Hilton Hotels in Bandung by WOW Architects | Warner Wong Design

The room wings are suspended above the new topography in perpendicular double loaded blocks, the main wing facing North and South to the distant mountain vistas and the lower West facing block overlooking the leisure deck. Most rooms and suites, at a generous 40m2, were created to serve the travel needs of the typically very large and close-knit Indonesian family with a proclivity to stay together in one room. These are accessed from a discrete set of elevators at the lobby level that begin the retreat from the excitement of the public areas. All rooms, including their glass-enclosed bathrooms, offer dramatic views of the mountainous perimeter, reinforcing the hotel’s resort ambiance. Like the public areas, the rooms are complete with refined furnishings and rich materials inspired by the Javanese aesthetic. Touches of rich timbers, Ikat woven fabrics and Batik-inspired carpets continue the tradition of glamorous travel with which Bandung is associated.

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