Decoration of Beijing Huaiyangfu Hotel Is Classified as “EU-SUS BIRD” Project

On November 9th, at the meeting of “2013 Sustainable Decoration Public Activity—Green Decoration Forum, & the Press Conference of Construction Quality Acceptance Code of Living Building Decoration” held in Beijing, the decoration project of Beijing Huaiyangfu Hotel, designed and constructed by China Decoration, was classified as a project of EU—Sustainable Building Interior Renovation and Decoration Initiative in China (SUS BIRD for short). Leaders of EU project representative office in China, Ministry of Housing & Urban-rural Development and more than 10 institutions as well as numerous news media attended the conference.

Reportedly, the European Union attaches great importance to energy-saving environmental protection requirements for decoration, and has established common industry standards and specifications. SUS BIRD is an international cooperation program financed by the European Union. The project aims at carrying out sustainable decoration activities, suggesting to consumers to use more environment-friendly decoration materials and energy-efficient and water-saving appliances, supervising decoration enterprises to establish environmental protection and energy-saving renovation procedure, and use more environment-friendly, energy-saving decoration materials and equipment.

In line with the concept of “green and healthy building”, China Decoration has been exploring the application of low-carbon, energy-saving and environmental protection in design and construction of decoration, and has accumulated rich experience, and won general approval of government departments, industry associations, and users. Huaiyangfu Hotel renovation project in Beijing is just one of these cases. In the future, China Decoration will further strengthen adoption of energy saving and environmental protection concept in design and construction, regulate itself by industry standards of developed countries, and strive to realize the goal of “Global Acceptance” as early as possible.

Beijing Huaiyangfu Hotel is a high-end hotel mainly selling Huaiyang dishes, one of the four cuisines in China. It covers a construction area of 2780 square meters and its design starts from four aspects, including Jiangnan style architecture, gardens, humanistic concerns and arts, dominated by Chinese style. First of all, the representative visual elements, including green bricks, grey tiles, white walls, were chosen as main decoration tone. Secondly, elaborate layout of old-style pattern is adopted to realize proportion, elegance and sobriety, making the customers walking through the hall feel like entering a courtyard of celebrities of Ming and Qing Dynasties. It also incorporates technique of Chinese classical gardens, such as open frames, pavilions, short sketches, dotted with stacked stone, bamboo and vine ornament. By borrowed distant scenery, contrastive scenery and changed scenery at every step, the hotel creates a kind of mystery with bright landscape along quiet meandering narrow paths. On the third floor, there are small bridge, waterfall, and verandas for the guests to walk on. In terms of its soft decoration, its public area such as lobby and corridors are ornamented with paintings and poems of 8 eccentric geniuses in ancient Yangzhou, as well as lacquer paintings and sculptures. Compartments are enlivened and softened by bead curtains and gauze. The biggest luxurious compartment, Qingyun Room is festooned with specially designed lanterns with auspicious cloud pattern and its floor covered with carpet.