THE EQUATORIAN

The Equatorian is a preliminary design for a new 5*hotel project in Juba, Sudan. The hotel features 64 standard guest rooms, 18 Junior Suites and 4 Apartment Suites. The hotel also offers other commercial and recreational facilities like gift shops, restaurants, V.I.P. lounge, conference centre, a Multi-purpose ballroom, a movie theatre, a roof top terrace cafe and a gym.

Inspired by central equatorian natural wealth, the hotel comes across as a formal expression of a variety of natural equatorian complexities. Five recognizable repeating patterns are panelled onto the facades along the vertical modules of the guest room spans, ensuring natural lighting for each individual room or suite.

The patterns are conceived geometrically in a way that resists being formally categorized albeit makes ample .room for formal allegory and political thought The nile tribunaries, lakes, banks and delta are but one way of deciphering the formal anagrams that the hotel facade speaks. For those with a national geographic imagination, the hotel skin is a patchwork of agro-pastoral allegory, schools of fish, herds of elephants, bulls, birds or other imaginary animals. But beyond allegory, the anagrammatic nature of this design acknowledges in the political what is beyond sketchy freedom or enforced union, in the possible in relations -formal or political- that alone renders freedom worthy, and unions effective.

**Interior perspective view: The White Nile Suite**

The White Nile Suite is an interior design project for the apartment suites on the seventh and eighth floors of The Equatorian Hotel; featuring two furniture pieces of Occlude's new furniture line: "UR Private Space" armchair, and the coffee table

Inspired by central equatorian natural wealth, the hotel comes across as a formal expression of a variety of natural equatorian complexities

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THE EQUATORIAN

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