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Convoy Hotel lobby — a fluted timber reception desk with a green marble band, backlit arched forms behind, and woven pendants overhead
Hospitality · Dibrugarh, Assam · Architecture + Interiors

Convoy Hotel

Type
Hospitality
Location
Dibrugarh, Assam
Size
15,000 sq ft
Status
Built 2022
Layout
Annotated floor plan showing the guest rooms, lift, staircases and service spaces

The floor plate: five rooms around a central corridor, the lift and main stair to one side, a fire stair and service core to the other.

Axonometric of a guest floor with rooms and circulation labelled

A guest floor pulled open — five rooms, each with an attached toilet, hung off a single corridor.

Cutaway section through one room, from entry door to facade glass

One room in section, entry to facade: the shower cubicle, a tinted glass separator, stripped MDF wall panelling, and the study table against the glazing.

Line drawing of the building exterior with vertical Convoy Hotel signage

The street elevation, with the vertical sign held off the glazed corner.

Section through the whole building with each floor labelled

The building in section, floor by floor: reception and bakery at street level, four floors of rooms above, then Windsong Cafe, and the bar on the roof.

The building
Conceptual exterior render of the hotel at dusk from the street

The building as first imagined from the street, brick and glass banded together under a louvred roof.

The building under construction, wrapped in bamboo scaffolding and green netting

The frame going up, wrapped in bamboo and green netting.

The finished hotel from the air, with the cafe and rooftop bar on the top floors

Finished, from the air: rooms stacked behind glass, and the cafe and bar taking the top two floors.

Arrival
The hotel lobby, a fluted reception desk banded in moss under arched brass mesh screens

The lobby. A fluted desk banded with moss and dark stone, arched brass mesh screens either side, woven pendants overhead and the void opening to the floor above.

The reception desk in fluted timber with a green marble band and backlit arches behind

The reception desk: fluted timber wrapped around a green marble band, with backlit arched forms standing behind it.

The lobby seating area with tan sofas, woven pendants and an arched screen door

The lobby seating, under a double-height void — tan upholstery, woven pendants, and marble inlaid with green.

The rooms
A garden facing room with a carved timber door and reeded glass to the bathroom

A garden room, with a carved timber door and reeded glass borrowing light from the bathroom.

A city facing room with a wider bathroom behind a reeded glass screen

The city-facing rooms take a wider bathroom instead of a view — a green marble vanity, and a reeded screen between the two.

A corner room with glazing on two sides and a cushioned window seat

The corner room turns its two glazed walls into a window seat.

The television panel and writing desk set against the fluted wall

Television, desk and stools all hang off the same fluted panel, keeping the floor clear.

A room seen from the bathroom side, with the carved door and circular artworks

The same room read the other way, from the bathroom door back to the bed.

Detail drawing of the room wardrobe system with every compartment annotated

The wardrobe system, drawn compartment by compartment: luggage rack, secret safe, brass hanging rod, bar cabinet, and space set aside for the kettle and the mini fridge.

On site
A bare concrete guest room during construction with sprinkler pipework overhead

A room as a concrete shell, sprinkler line already run overhead.

A bed platform and headboard panel being built, with the bathroom opening beyond

The bed platform and its panel going in, laminate still loose on the base and the bathroom opening cut beside it.

The fluted bed panel part-installed in a city-side room

The fluted panel part-fixed in a city-side room, the ledge running on beneath it.

The view out of an unfinished city-side room over the town

What the city rooms actually look onto — tin roofs, palms and the town beyond.

The completed reception desk with the mezzanine above

The reception as built, the mezzanine reading straight above it.

The lift lobby with a glass-balustraded stair and inlaid floor

The lift lobby, with the stair carried on glass and the floor inlaid to match.

Bedside detail with a reading light set into the timber headboard band

Bedside: a reading light and switch plate set into the timber band, the nightstand floating clear of the floor.

The built wardrobe and minibar nook with a backlit mirror

The wardrobe wall built out — kettle and tray on the stone counter, mirror lit from behind, exactly as the detail drawing set it out.

A finished tea-garden room at night

A tea-garden room at night, curtains drawn back to the glass.

A finished city-side room with the bathroom screen and minibar counter

A city room, finished: the green screen to the bathroom, and the minibar set into dark stone.

A finished tea-garden room with corner glazing onto the trees

And a tea-garden room by day, the corner glazing giving the whole wall to the trees.