07. General arrangement planning & development / updates to FF&E selection

This week, we turned our attention to General Arrangement – adapting our hero design to fit the floor plate of the building, and planning and developing the public spaces in our hotel designs. I began with some rough zoning ideas, reflecting on the case studies I had looked at and how each of those had […]

06. Research case studies & site visit

This week we returned to research – some desk-based case studies as well as a site visit to a boutique hotel within the University of Edinburgh’s hospitality offering. I had developed my design scheme to a point that I felt was taking it in the right direction, however a more focussed look at some design […]

5. Model making – considering the first impression (pt.2/2)

Based on from some feedback I received, I made the decision to move the door in my design so that the first view the guest would have would be of both the curved hallway as well as the open living space with a view of the cityscape – encapsulating a variety of the key elements […]

4. FF&E schedule, design refinement and model making (pt.1/2)

This week began with some further contemplations on how to develop the bathroom space within my design. I had already dedicated quite a bit of thought to this, however up to this point it had been largely for the purposes of functionality. While mulling this over over the past few weeks, I had considered many […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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