The Palms Resort Club - Interior at
The Parkway, Surat
Surat, Gujarat, India
Veritable Window to Nature at Activity-Packed
Recreational Venue
The resort community of The Parkway planned on the outskirts of Surat
includes a clubhouse located near the community’s entry point, named
The Palms in reference to the existing stretch of palm trees lining a large
2-acre lake the club overlooks. The club is packed with an array of
recreational and sports activities for its patrons from the community as
well as a 30 keys boutique hotel with dining, café, banquet and a party
lawn. Sport and recreation facilities include a discotheque, mini-theatre,
billiards/ pool room, games & cards room, gym, table-tennis, squash,
swimming pool with changing & shower rooms, and a kids play area –
all lined up with the uniquely designed F&B facilities along the ground
floor of the linearly planned building and facing the entrance from the
community side. The first floor is entirely lined by the hotel guest rooms
overlooking the lake on the other side along with a lounge and a
presidential suite.
Size : 75,000 SF Services :Interior Design, Sustainability
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This plan, which allows each space of the club’s interior to connect directly with the outer
environment, has this natural connection further enhanced by the careful use of warm, earthy
natural materials, colours & textures throughout its entire interiors. This linear planning makes for
breezy navigation by its patrons and smooth and efficient operation of facilities. The carefully
crafted interlace of natural textures & colours with detailed, profuse landscaping, extending all
around the large lake as jogging track, promenade and gardens, makes the club a warm, inviting
timeless commune to nature.
The pervasive use of slatted wood in almost all interior spaces above head-level sets the mood at
a raw, natural and healthful vibe. Wooden slats are used in the ceilings, in framing the large
openings from the tops and sides and also in parquet patterned flooring in areas like dining &
dancing spaces and on the decks that line the pools and the lake. As this pervasive material
continuity makes a seamless interior-exterior weave, these wooden slats are most effectively used
as drop screens punctuating the colonnade which harmonically aligns with the lake’s palm-tree
line and also as a natural frame to the views outside from each guest room. All of the flooring,
from the arrival plaza to the banquet, dining, games and recreational spaces including guest
rooms, constitutes natural locally sourced stones like coloured granite, Kota and Cuddapa. Warm
wall colours, lighting emanating from delicately crafted wood and coir fixtures along with mostly
rattan woven furniture, perforated wooden screens complete the warm, inviting environment.
Whether with the hard-scaping or the soft-scaping, a strategic continuity maintained in the
interiors and exteriors helps blur the divide between the two. Just as strips of green planters
highlight by contrast the arrival foyer’s flame finished antique brown granite paving, so do
the spaced granite pavers bordering the party lawn enhance its green carpet. A detailed
plantation strategy is followed for each space on the premises which lends natural
exuberance to each facility, like the row of colourful blooming planters lining the exterior
semi-covered passage/ verandah framing the view of the lake outside. High ceilings which
allow warm air to rise and adequately fenestrated faces of the building which allow a flow of
continuous cross-breezes cooled by the lake waters contribute to energy-efficient climate
control as part of the sustainability strategy.
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