Paramount Hotel

Location: Zhejiang, China

Client: Private

Program: Hotel

Area: 748,000ft² (69,500m²)

Status: Concept Design

This concept design for Paramount Hotel in Zhejiang, China creates a living, breathing world driven by imagination – drawing inspiration from Bernard Tsunami’s Screenplays, 1976, utilized here by Burgeoning as a design tactic.

The Screenplays are investigations of concepts as well as techniques, proposing simple hypotheses and then testing them out. They explore the relation between events ("the program") and architectural spaces, on one hand, and transformational devices of a sequential nature, on the other.

The use of film images in these works originated in an interest in sequences and programmatic concerns. "There is no architecture without action, no architecture without event, no architecture without a program."