PROJECT / THE ARCADIA, COIMBATORE, INDIA All photography courtesy: The Arcadia
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SHOESTRING GLAMOUR
The Arcadia in Coimbatore, India, offers a rare mix, affordable boutique style. A scheme by Lighting Research and Design helped to create a stylish atmosphere without breaking the budget.
Boutique hotels are normally plush expen- sive affairs, The Arcadia, in Coimbatore, a former textile town on the grow in India’s south, was built to be something different. It was created to offer all the hallmarks of a plush hotel, without the eye watering expense.
The challenge was to imbue a boutique style in the quintessential sense, from exterior façade inwards, all while working within a tight budget. Lighting played a crit- ical role, as it was required to highlight the boutique elements of the design while at the same time being warm and welcoming. The façade, designed by Shanavaz & Asso- ciates, consists of three distinct elements meant to formulate a collective light art installation. The central staircase landings are used as windows for displaying colourful furniture and decorative light fixtures. A glass cuboid is backlit with LED strips,
from MCI, in purple light, the hotel’s corpo- rate colour, while a monochromatic ensem- ble of squares in different shades of grey are used to complement the colours of the furniture and the cuboid. The three-dimen- sionality of the ensemble is more prominent after dark as the LED strips silhouette the squares.
The main entrance double-height lobby consists of a central decorative chandelier and a display wall with colourful glass- ware highlighted with LED mini-spotlights and a higher display wall with glass floral elements. A 3000K colour temperature has been chosen throughout the hotel, as part of the lighting design by Lighting Research & Design, in order to provide a warm and welcoming ambience. The reception area is softly lit with bespoke linear luminaires made of wood and acrylic inset with LED
Above The façade of The Arcadia in Coimbatore, India, features LED strips from MCI, which silhouette the squares that make up a considerable chunk of the hotel’s exterior design.
Below The hotel lobby features colourful glassware and a lighting colour temperature chosen especially to create a welcoming feel.
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