RON ARAD
- louisedalrymple7
- Mar 15, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 4, 2021
Ron Arad is a contemporary Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect. One of the most influential designers of his generation, Arad is responsible for numerous innovations in the fields of rapid manufacturing and integrated technology.
The Nobu Hotel Shoreditch is renowned restaurateur Nobu’s first European venture into hospitality, and occupies a 100m long frontage along a quiet Shoreditch street.
Design Museum Holon – Israel’s first museum dedicated to Design – harbours the dynamic play between a series of internal, box-like gallery spaces on different levels, and six ribbons of Cor-Ten steel. These both support and flow around them, and the circulation routes and outdoor public spaces they encompass.
A new master-plan for the historic Hotel Le Beauvallon in the Cote D’Azur, was commissioned in order to better bind disparate facilities across the 5 hectare site. This also included proposals for a new contemporary Hotel entry level and a pool-suite resort within the compound.
A sequential spatial arrangement enhances visual and physical connections between each hotel zone, and facilitates a more sustainable site-wide service strategy. This is expressed architecturally using a continuous sculptural element that transforms itself from entry portal into structural wall leading through the hotel and down towards the beach beyond. It is used to screen off service routes and guest circulation, while simultaneously uniting the main Hotel, the spa suites, beach club and pool suites. The latter are intimately clustered in and around a fresh-water biologically filtered lagoon.
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