HOTEL MAYBIS
PLAN / FLOOR
7
Area
3,910 sq.m.
Programmes
HOSPITALITY, RESIDENTIAL
Status
Completed
Year
2021-2024
Location
สมุทรปราการ
Client
S.MILES Group
Themes
ARCHITECTURE
MAYBIS HOTEL
Redefining Repose at the Heart of Bangphli's Business District
Set within the strategic crossroads of Bangphli–Tamru, Samut Prakan — a thriving corridor where heavy industry meets Suvarnabhumi Airport and the storied coastlines of the Inner Gulf converge — Maybis Hotel emerges as a measured architectural response to a region in perpetual motion. It is a place conceived where commerce and contemplation are no longer asked to choose between each other, but invited to coexist with grace.
Bangphli is a district defined by movement — of cargo, capital, and weary travellers — yet largely starved of spaces that pause to breathe. The brief before us was deceptively simple, but conceptually demanding: to design a hotel that would honour the cadence of business while gently insisting on the value of rest. We refused, from the outset, the conventional dichotomy that separates the "business hotel" from the "leisure retreat."
In its place, we set a higher mark: to compose a destination that receives its guests with what we have termed a Smart Casual disposition — professional in posture, contemporary in expression, yet disarmingly warm in atmosphere. The building had to function with the precision of a corporate residence while feeling, at its core, like an unhurried sanctuary. It needed to weave both temperaments into a single, coherent identity — one that performs as a working instrument by day and a place of recovery by night, without ever appearing transactional or coldly efficient.
Our approach centred on the deliberate construction of a memorable architectural image — an identity that would distinguish Maybis from the procession of generic accommodations along the Suvarnabhumi corridor. We did not pursue novelty for its own sake; rather, we cultivated an experience grounded in the principle of Multi-Sensory Engagement — a calibrated sequence of moments designed to engage sight, touch, sound, and atmosphere in concert.
Every gesture — from the silhouette read against the sky, to the texture met beneath one's fingertips at reception, to the whisper of cross-ventilation along a corridor — was treated as an instrument within a larger composition. We anchored the project's narrative in the genius loci of Samut Prakan: its tides, its fisheries, its quiet vernacular wisdom. Maybis, in this framing, became less a building imposed upon its site and more a vessel that gathers the spirit of place and offers it back to the visitor.
1. The Facade — A Sculpted Tide. The building's most arresting gesture is its exterior: a rhythmic composition of curved white concrete shells inspired by the layered waves of nearby Bang Pu beach. Each curve performs a threefold duty — concealing air-conditioning compressors with quiet discipline, securing privacy for every guest room, and granting the building an unmistakable silhouette upon the Bangphli skyline.
2. The Transition Garden. Between carpark and lobby, we inserted a shaded Landscape Patio — a green threshold where the tension of arrival dissolves beneath the canopy before architecture asserts itself.
3. Programmatic Clarity. The plan follows a legible logic. The ground floor consolidates all communal life — Lobby, Business Centre, and Co-working Space — while floors two through seven house seventy-nine guest rooms in tranquil seclusion.
4. A Building That Breathes. Thermal comfort in Thailand's humid climate demands more than mechanical cooling. We carved deliberate voids into each guestroom floor to harness Stack Ventilation, allowing rising heat to escape skyward through the rooftop. Corridors are naturally tempered; energy is quietly conserved.
5. Interior — The ORIKAMI Concept. Within, the concept of ORIKAMI weds the Japanese discipline of paper-folding to the natural cadences of Samut Prakan, expressed through graphics, motifs, and joinery distributed across the building. The Lobby's signature timber screen — drawn from the geometry of traditional fishing traps, a piece of local vernacular intelligence — curves overhead like a gathered net. The Restaurant shifts character from energetic Modern-Chic by day to softened repose by night. Guest rooms remain restrained in palette yet precise in detail: graphic accents in signature tones, durable surfaces calibrated for daily hospitality turnover, and configurations adaptable enough to welcome pet-friendly stays — engineered to evolve with tomorrow's traveller.
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