架构师提供的文本描述。市区别墅是伦敦西部一家有100个房间的酒店。该酒店的独特之处在于，它是一家精品酒店和一家公寓的混合体-这两个项目通常是相互排斥的。我们的简介是为传统的产品带来一种设计主导的、定制的热情好客的感觉。对我们来说，一个更大的挑战是试图在一座我们发现相当平淡无奇、无菌的新建住宅塔(不是我们设计的)的一部分内做到这一点。我们必须努力寻找在现有环境中的任何角色，并且，在可能的情况下，我们试图剥离那些与我们的意图不一致的图层。

Text description provided by the architects. Urban Villa is a 100 room hotel in west London. The property is unique in that it is a hybridization of a boutique hotel offering and an aparthotel — two programs that generally are mutually exclusive. Our brief was to bring a design-led bespoke hospitality feel to a product that is traditionally anything but. An even bigger challenge for us was to attempt to do this within a portion of a newly built and largely residential tower (not of our design) that we found to be rather prosaic and sterile. We had to look hard to find any character within the existing environment and, where possible, we tried to peel back the layers that were at odds with our intentions.

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我们在现有建筑物内进行干预的第一步是减法-在我们可能的情况下提供的结构和服务。在一楼，我们把酒会设计成一个完整的酒吧，从传统的英国公共房屋-酒吧-中汲取了灵感和暗示，历史上，酒吧里有出租的房间，酒保则加倍地充当客栈老板。我们选择的调色板是明亮的，欢迎的，但健壮和功能-一个环境，感觉就像要求额外的毛巾就像它要一杯鸡尾酒一样自然。

The first step of our intervention within the existing building was subtractive — revealing structure and services where we could. On the ground floor we designed the reception to double as a full bar, taking both cues and inspiration from traditional English public houses — pubs — where historically there were rooms to let and the barkeeper doubled as an innkeeper. We chose a palette that is bright and welcoming yet robust and functional — an environment where it felt just as natural to ask for extra towels as it would to order a cocktail.

 Axonometric

大厅里还有一家咖啡厅，我们为同一天一夜的变化无常而设计的咖啡厅。一系列公用桌子和更多的私人分隔空间位于屏风之间和天花板下的筏下。我们想要平衡丰富的玻璃和高天花板与垂直断裂，温暖和真实的材料，茂盛的植被和纹理。空间，虽然清晰，轻洗和欢快，微妙地分配到不同程度的公共和私人空间，尽管没有任何墙壁。

The lobby also hosts a cafe we designed for the same day-to-night mutability. A series of communal tables and more private breakout spaces sit between screens and under ceiling rafts. We wanted to balance the abundant glazing and high ceilings with vertical breaks, warm and authentic materials, lush vegetation and texture. The space, while legible, light washed and convivial, is subtly apportioned into varying degrees of public and private space though void of any walls.

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C.尼古拉斯·沃利

在客房里，我们没有足够的空间展示建筑的骨架，所以我们专注于设计定制的家具和与上述公共空间相一致的完工时间表。同样是在房间里，我们试图把公寓的范围和便利设施与一家未来设计酒店的理想感觉结合起来-我们采用了何种范围来抹去或至少减少开发商专用住宅的显眼遗产。

In the guest rooms we had less latitude to reveal the bones of the building so we focused on designing custom furniture and a finish schedule that would be congruent with the aforementioned public spaces. It is also within the rooms that we tried to wed the scope and amenities of an aparthotel with the aspirational feel of a design forward hotel — employing what scope we had to erase, or at least diminish, the palpable legacy of a developer spec residence.

 Reception Elevation

接收高程

这个委员会的性质和挑战对我们来说是独一无二的，我们希望组成城市别墅的空间与构成大楼其余部分的空间有很大的不同-我们设法创造了一种气氛，掩盖了它的外壳，并在一个原本统一的环境中注入了一些异质性。

The nature and challenges of this commission were unique for us and it is our hope that the spaces that comprise Urban Villa feel quite divergent from those which make up the rest of the building — that we managed to create an atmosphere that belies its shell and injected some heterogeneity into an otherwise uniform environment.

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C.尼古拉斯·沃利

Architects Grzywinski+Pons

Location Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom

Category Hotels

Area 6320.0 sqm

Project Year 2015

Photographs Nicholas Worley