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Orient Jerusalem Hotel

Glass within architecture.

东方耶路撒冷酒店

Context
Hospitality
Location
Israel
Visual expression
Geometric pattern / warm tones / repeated fields
Restaurant interior with patterned partitions

Selected from the POBO project archive.

Pattern within a shared room.

The Orient Jerusalem Hotel brings decorative glass into restaurant and counter settings. Repeated geometric motifs appear within a warm interior of tables, seating and overhead elements. The room and counter views show how the decorative rhythm relates to the wider interior, then reveal its smaller marks and material relationships at closer range.

02 / A project reading

Background / spatial intent

The main room photograph brings a large shared dining area into view. Patterned surfaces are one part of a layered setting that also includes strong overhead forms, warm floor tones and repeated furniture. Closer views around counters and walls reveal how the decorative rhythm continues at another scale. The interest lies in how the surface contributes to the whole room rather than standing apart from it.

A sense of the detail.

The motif, close at hand.

The project material archive adds a closer perspective on the geometric motif: a group of panels on a workshop rack and an individual surface detail. The repeated marks can be considered alongside the rhythm of the finished dining room. These views describe the material's appearance without assigning a technical specification.

03 / A project reading

Application of glass

A coated-glass direction appears through geometric decorative surfaces around dining and counter settings. Pattern becomes part of the room’s repeated language, connecting smaller surface marks with the rhythm of tables and overhead elements. The counter views bring that relationship closer, allowing the glass to be considered alongside the adjacent finishes and the details of the interior.

04 / A project reading

Material expression

A repeated geometric language sits beside the larger shapes of the ceiling and furniture. The pattern can be read as an overall rhythm across the room and as smaller marks in the closer images. Warm surrounding colours keep the composition connected. The different viewpoints offer a useful way to consider how a decorative surface remains legible among many elements in a shared hospitality space.

Details that shape the reading.

A shared visual rhythm

Repeated motifs give the surfaces a relationship with other repeating elements in the room.

Warm surroundings

The decorative panels are seen alongside warm materials, seating and a strongly articulated overhead composition.

More than one distance

Room and counter views show the pattern at both architectural and closer interior scales.

Continue the material exploration with these contemporary collection directions.

A related visual direction.

03 / Rhythm & repetition

Grid pattern

Pattern.

Rhythm, drawn in glass.

Bring the idea into a brief.

Explore design considerations for related uses of decorative glass.

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