Woodio Spaces Part 3 – Hotel Jansen Bajeskwartier

Hotel Jansen is an open house community for international young talent, academics and digital nomads. Hotel Jansen provides their guests with comfortable, casual and considered places to live. Their uniquely designed hotels have everything that is needed for a welcoming stay, whether that be for one day or six months. 

The hotel is located in the vibrant area of Amsterdam east and close to the Amstel railway station, while just a 10-minute cycle ride from the city centre.  Bajeskwartier is a neighbourhood designed to be a self-sustaining ecosystem that encourages and facilitates smart and considered lifestyles. It’s one of the most ambitious urban developments in Europe and a primary example of what future life in Amsterdam will be, promising green, healthy, and inspired living. We are proud to be a part of this!

The facilities of Hotel Jansen Amsterdam Bajeskwartier 

Hotel Jansen Amsterdam Bajeskwartier has 200 fully furnished rooms, designed and built with sustainability on top of the mind. The rooms range from 20 m2 to 29 m2 in size, all equipped with a comfortable queen size bed, a kitchen pantry, a private bathroom with rain shower and a dining, work and chill corner. 

The rooms are divided over 10 floors and every second floor has a spacious Clubroom which functions as a living room and a self-catering kitchen where guests can cook, work and relax with fellow residents. The hotel also has a co-working area and laundry café. On the ground floor one can find Café Jansen. Café Jansen is the heart of the hotel: a place where guests can hangout alongside the locals and submerse themselves in the neighborhood. Everybody is welcome, whether you are a local popping in for a coffee, or a guest having breakfast, a working lunch, soaking up the summer sun on the terrace or joining friends for dinner. 

Cozy, sustainable and hand-made interior 

The interior of the hotel is designed by MONK Architects and Fiction Factory. One of the interior designers from Fiction Factory was Hade Steenwinkel, who says that the goal was to make the bathrooms and toilets feel spacious, so that the guest would immediately feel comfortable there. The lighting, the colors, the niches and the natural materials were chosen to ensure that you feel at home in the space. 

“We wanted to make the rooms more cozy than a standard hotel room, so we opted for calm colors and natural materials”, Steenwinkel says. 

Sustainability was one of the themes when designing the hotel interior, and one can see circular design in many of the elements. The designers also used a lot of creativity with the interior – they played with concrete and colour, carpets and lasers, an old chandelier and pieces of fruit, overhead projectors and a tufting gun. Laser cut carpets were made for the walls of the 200 rooms, providing warmth as well as a sense of identity with the words on the artwork being all typical local sayings, as well as a large tufted wall tapestry for the café. 

The lamp shades are locally made in Amsterdam as well: Lisa from the ceramics studio LVT designed them for Hotel Jansen Amsterdam Bajeskwartier. An installation that previously hung in the Rijksmuseum has been given a second life as a chandelier in the hotel lobby, in collaboration with Caroline Prisse and Van Tetterode Glass Studio. Remnants of glass have been melted into molds of slices of dried fruit, forming hundreds of colored glass fragments that capture and reflect the light. 

Why Woodio?

The private bathroom of each room is equipped with a stylish and practical Woodio S40 wallhung washbasin in colour Natural. The public restroom in the hotel restaurant has three Woodio C40 table-top washbasins in the enchanting deep green colour Moss. 

“I loved the idea of ​​a wood chip sink as soon as I saw it – we just had to wait for a project to use it in. There had been a Woodio sample box in our sample room for some time and we were impressed by the material and the deep colors.”  

“I hung the first sink at home to test whether we dared to use it in a hotel. After a year and a half of intensive use, I was convinced. We thought that Woodio would be a great fit for the rooms of Hotel Jansen Amsterdam Bajeskwartier and convinced the client by hanging a Woodio sink in a test room”, Hade Steenwinkel says. 

Photos: Hotel Jansen Bajeskwartier by Fiction Factory Foto © Yvonne Witte