The Human Factor - daylight management for privacy and personal comfort

The hospitality sector is constantly evolving to meet new customer demands and new challenges. Hotels and hospitality buildings represent a brand and the unique offering that brand brings to its guests. The ability to create a space that combines aesthetic with the ability to personalise the room's functions is an important offer in today's demanding market.

Improve visual & thermal comfort

In guest rooms, reception or meeting areas, keeping temperature at a constant level and controlling natural light are key contributors to the comfort of the guests, visitors and employees.

With hospitality spaces providing many different functions from leisure services through to conferencing or destination dining, being able to adapt the environment and control the visual and thermal comfort accordingly is important to achieve the ulitmate experience for the users.

Discover more about dynamic solar shading for comfort and well-being.

Creating the ideal environment
  • Filter natural light for resting or working in bedrooms.
  • Create the desired ambience in meeting spaces or social areas
  • Eliminate light from outside when needed, for example, conference rooms.

Offer more privacy and comfort

The hotel is a living space, albeit a temporary one. Within it, everyone can protect their privacy and adapt their environment to suit their own preferences and needs, creating a home away from home.

Somfy solutions...
  • Allow guests to protect their privacy by controlling motorised blinds or curtains individually.
  • Adjust the room environment by controlling the angle of the slats on Venetian blinds.
  • Modify interiors by opening or closing curtains.

Sustainable investment and profitability

The hotel keeps its energy consumption and operating costs down while prolonging the life of its equipment.

Somfy solutions...
  • Extend the life of motorised equipment by allowing them to run smoothly.
  • Reduce manual operations and thus maintenance costs in bedrooms.
  • Reduce renovation costs in meeting and conference rooms because motorisation is easy to install

“Electricity use accounts for 60-70 % of the utility costs of a typical hotel. Energy-efficient lighting can reduce electricity use up to 75 %.“

75 %

(Source California Hotel & Lodging Association)

A designer's testimonial...

Discover the testimonial of Aline Erbeia - French Interior Designer - who shares some tips on how to design welcoming, personalised living spaces where you will feel relaxed and comfortable with Somfy's automated solutions.

“In our 300 rooms, motorised curtains produce savings on maintenance and cleaning, operational costs - due to remote control - and personnel (less time spent in the room), not forgetting the look of the place as they require less manual intervention.”

(Hotel chain development manager)

Hospitality

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Quay Grand
Country
Australia
City
Sydney
Date
2002
Architect
Henry Pollock & Associates

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Click on the link below to discover our Hospitality brochure

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