Sunyata · Meili Hotel

Commissioned by Travelling with Hotel and Travel Management Group, Sunyata Hotel Meili is co-created by Signyan Design Studio led by renowned interior designer Xie Ke, as the last member of Design Hotels. The project is re-purposed from a former backpacker lodge located in Deqin, Yunnan.

由中国本土酒店管理公司行李旅宿委任，尚壹扬工作室 Signyan Design Studio担当室内设计，既下山·梅里酒店将远离尘世的云南德钦的一处背包客旅舍，改造为一处呈现东方新人文主义美学的高端设计酒店，并入列Design Hotels联盟。

Mindfulness is a quintessential element in Chinese humanity traditions, in which individualistic drive grounds in the central instead of being family- or power-engined. For Sunyata Hotel Meili, the nearby awe-inspiring landscapes and cultural heritages tend to create power oppression to the mindful merit of Zen culture. For Xie, he creatively offers a unique design paradigm by adopting the abstract story-telling in Chinese art history, de-constructing the invasive atmosphere from the figurative to the individual and to the culture. In the Hotel, any figurative expression is minimized. SYY Studio further utilizes furnitures and hand-picked decoration sourced from the local to enchant a warm yet rustic experience. There still are some Tibetan references across the hotel: the golden ceiling, washed thangka paintings, rammed earth walls and strategic lighting design rephrasing the halo from Tibetan temples.

“内观”为中国人文主义的精神核心，不以对权利及家庭结构为导向，而注重个体化性的自我探索。针对既下山·梅里而言，强势的外部环境（被称为神山的梅里十三峰、壮阔的自然地貌特质、饱满的藏传佛教文化）趋向于与来自东方禅宗文化的“内观”呈现出对立的状态。针对这一挑战，谢柯及尚壹扬工作室以东方艺文中抽象表达的特质为出发点，消解具象的视觉符号对在地环境的影响，同时将空间转化成为人之精神的载体。来自谢柯的家居品牌YIJI Collection家居配合由谢柯在当地挑选的老物件，呈现温暖而粗犷的真实感。对藏地文化的影射则克制地表达于无装饰铜制金顶、斑驳的唐卡装饰及藏式夯土墙面的质感及灯光设计中，对佛教神性的隐喻。

As a breakthrough modernizing Asian design, Sunyata · Meili is a design project for the renaissance of individualistic heritage in Chinese philosophy meanwhile remaining authentic to the humble Confucianist belief in the context of an exotic environment.

既下山·梅里呈现了新东方人文精神的设计体系，跳脱出符号化的思维定势，以克制、谦逊的姿态尊重在地文化气质，并将空间让位于人的个体精神。