03. Developing the design scheme

Following the feedback discussed during our group crits, I was ruminating on was the guest experience when entering the room. In my initial design scheme, the guest would immediately be confronted with the bed, partially obscuring the views from the windows (half of the site faces Edinburgh Castle). Taking this as a point of development, […]

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02. Hotel room design

Having done a deep dive into The Substance in terms of its visual makeup, atmosphere and key details, I turned my attention to some key elements of the interiors on a slightly more zoomed-out scale. I questioned which aspects of the film might best be adapted into the interior of a hotel room to give […]

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01. Initial research

A new semester begins, and with it comes a new project – a movie hotel for true cinephiles! Having spent some time deliberating, I chose to use Coralie Fargeat’s body horror The Substance as the basis for my design. Released in 2024, film centres around Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), a fading star who has just […]

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