Guest rooms of the new Radisson Blu in Marrakech, Morocco by Atelier Pod

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The Radisson Blu Hotel Marrakech has just officially opened its doors. Xavier Guerrand Hermes and the investment fund Actif Invest invited Atelier Pod to design the accommodation of their new Marrakech property operated by the Carlson Rezidor hotel chain.

The main design challenge was to create a contemporary and innovative aesthetic recalling the essence of the red city. The hotel is located in Gueliz, and is part of a mixed-use property including apartments and a shopping center called “Carre Eden”.

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• Architects: Atelier Pod
• Project: Guest rooms of the new Radisson Blu
• Location: Marrakech, Morocco

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The design team had a tailored approach of extending the urban dynamic of the city to provide a relaxing, atypical atmosphere.

Atelier Pod focused on the design layout before looking for the aesthetic DNA. The purpose was to repeal the separation between the bathroom and the bedroom, and make a typical object of the eastern Arab language: the mousharabieh screen, the design highlight of the room.

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The sliding screen cuts a white monolithic bloc, creating an elegant separation between the bathroom and bedroom, showing on one side a vanity counter and on the other, a dressing table. The elegance is in the use of the mousharabieh, and the extension of its perspective behind a mirror which provides a visual connection between the bedroom and the bathroom.

The dressing is the second master piece of the room, designed as a multifunctional carved monolithic bloc, used as bathroom storage with a corner minibar column.

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The holistic design idea of the room is the harmonious blend between ethnic patterns and classical Arabian Geometrics. The distortion of patterns and their large glossy effect is what creates full and empty spaces incarnating the closet and contrasting the primitive ethnic patterns on the wallpaper.

The Deluxe room however, has a different orientation than the standard room. It has more width than length, which allows a position of the bed facing the view, whereas the desk is placed right behind the bed.

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The bathroom faces the view as well, making the entire space bathe in natural day light; the effect is enhanced as the deluxe bathroom is designed as a wet room, with the same mineral material covering the space. The rain shower cubicle is isolated into the bathroom space with a thick glass screen.

The Space and material blend characterizes a contemporary understanding of the importance of a functions balance and the interpretation of the Moroccan heritage, all harmoniously merged in one space and making it personal to Radisson Marrakech.

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About the agency

“Atelier Pod” is an international Architecture and Interior design studio founded in Paris in 1999, with branches today in Dubai and Casablanca.

Before founding Atelier Pod, the French Moroccan Architect Lotfi Sidirahal was a Partner at the design agency “Nebka” in Paris, specialized in luxury retail design with clients such as Kenzo, Armani, Clarins, Guerlain.

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Atelier Pod first started as an innovative laboratory on contemporary architecture and lifestyle evolution. Its first pioneering projects have earned several exhibitions in museums around the world, the most remarkable being the contemporary art centers as Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, the Vitra Design Museum in Berlin, Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, Canal Fundacion in Madrid, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) à Boston et le Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul.

After the luxury retail architectural experimentations, “Atelier Pod” collaborated on more than twenty hotel projects, and became a recognized design firm in hospitality referenced by renowned international hotel brands such as Accor, Fairmont Raffles, Carlson Rezidor, Anantara, Shaza by Kempinski, Paramount Hotels, etc.

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The studio’s achievements were awarded the creativity prize at Feidad in Taiwan, Eiffel Tower prize, in Paris, in addition to a nomination amongst the 40 best Architecture studios worldwide at the “Borromini Awards” in Rome. Last year the firm received two prizes for Architecture and Interior Design at the A design awards in Milan, the worlds’ largest and most diffused event in international design.

The current undertaken projects include a resort in the Maldives islands, The Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort in Sultanate of Oman, as well as the conception of a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Marrakech, etc.

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Tags: Marrakech, Morocco

Category: Room

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