COUP DE CŒUR ♥

ORIGINAL SEMARANG
CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

Beauty, creativity, discoveries happen in many places and take many shapes, and Padma Semarang has been redesigned to share with the community though experiences:
in NATURE. Semarang Botanical Experience will be a place to marvel at the diversity and splendor of the species. 

in ART. Semarang Contemporary Art Garden, a collaboration between Xavier Loup and TONYRAKA art gallery, will showcase 4 major masterpieces by 2 young contemporary Indonesian artists. Another collaboration with internationally recognized, French mix-media Artist, Yaz: a masterpiece of modern artwork collage displayed in the lagoon pool. A 3D artwork carved in almost 8 m long lava stone and patched with custom handmade 12,000 colorful resin pieces and a special ‘Blue Klein’ finishing paint representing “The World of PADMA” story, sharing the beauty of Indonesia archipelago’s nature where all PADMA hotels are located. 

in LIGHT. Light, whether natural, changes from dawn till dusk and with the different seasons. 

A visit to Padma Semarang will take you on a journey. A journey through the mind and senses too with Art and various experiences. 

A ‘patio’, with plaza dimensions, will be the first place of interaction (drop-off function), visual rhythm is provided by columns and series of oversized pots and plants. In the middle, 3 very large African bottle trees placed on top of a scene-like elevated platform, are combined with Art to welcome travelers. 

This scenography gives a human scale to the property. 

The lobby is evocative of a greenhouse with flowers. This opens to a long perspective on an eye-catching artwork located in the breakfast restaurant: a huge metal cloud shedding tears (of laughter) in the pond. A very graphic arrangement of Brazilian fern trees and other fragrant plants complete the scenery. 

Upstairs is the main level, with the swimming pool and large pots of scented bushes with powerful fresh and soothing perfume. Through 12 Moringa trees, the forest leads to a masterpiece of contemporary art, an 8-meters-high pagoda-like structure that people can enter. 

To the left 30 palm trees – a special species, with delicate characteristics – suggest a lagoon for the main pool. A repetition of large stones composing a waterfall and very different sounds from what people usually hear in a city hotel swimming pool. 

Bathers will swim 7 meters along a display revisiting iconic Indonesian natural locations. In the opposite direction is a smaller, shallower pool, also with a waterfall and a slide. 

The large leaves in the water areas reinforce the tropical feeling. Outside of the water areas lays a more modern, more European garden. This is unusual in Indonesia and is the perfect yin counterpart to the yang of the tropical side. Here is another artwork, expressing togetherness and playfulness, a great addition to this life space dedicated to leisure. 

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