Harris Hotel Pontianak

This hotel is located in the main business street of Pontianak city center and at a very strategic location in the main crossroad which can be seen from three directions of streets. Initially, the owner has run their business in restaurant and specialties store in this site. Therefore they would like to have their business to be inserted back in this new development. To contain lots of programs inside, the design is very compact. This project contains of parking area, specialties store, restaurant, and hotel, ballroom, meeting rooms, swimming pool and rooftop cafe. The design of the Harris Hotel tries to represent the old custom of local people such as planting in the pot and put it in their shop-houses balconies. Shop-houses is very popular in local Chinese community, especially in the city center, thus they do not have space for greenery. In order to have plants and flowers in their house, thus they put plants in pots and display it in the balconies. This custom is getting disappear nowadays.