Friday, August 31, 2007

Project A.N. --- Part 6

6. Summary & Conclusions

Project A.N. (Project for the Abstract and Artificial Nature) is the theme of this hotel design. It is an experimental design which expresses a strong manifesto to the city: “Landscape should be continuous and seamless, and architecture should act as the medium for the transition between landscapes rather than isolation.” Besides the manifesto, this hotel also provides comfortable room and SPA for the chosen target group: the Culture Creatives, and will impress the guests with its unique spatial experience from the real nature to the abstracted and artificial nature.

This design is step by step developed with the linear process which consists of 3 phases: Concept, Solution, and Design. The development in the current phase must follow the results of the previous phase. This strong order prevents the design deviating from the concepts and program. This process creates efficiency for handling this kind of assignment in such a short period of time. Also, the model-driven method is a very direct way to develop and examine the design. It has great effort especially for developing the unique spatial quality in the interior space.

This hotel design is very experimental for me because of its double-headed development from the context and the interior space of hotel room. The double-headed development is affected by the influence from nature and human. Apparently, the value of nature and landscape is seriously emphasized in this design, and it is even as important as the value of the target group. It is because that the relation between human and nature is forgotten when it comes to designing building in the city. The building is usually used to represent the value and achievement of the human, and also to shield human from the fatal factors of the outside world. The building becomes the isolation between human and nature. Especially nowadays when the density is getting higher and higher in the city, the building block must contain more and more functions and create many private inner gardens inside the building blocks. That is why the existing landscape is further divided into odd pieces, and these odd pieces are usually alienated with each other.

It said that the hotel design has most freedom to imagine the theme as long as your target group and client likes it. Since the Culture Creatives appreciates the efforts to the environmental problems, I would like to take advantage of this hotel design to reconnect the relationship between human and nature by making the building as the medium between the green streetscape and the inner garden. Hopefully, the Project A.N. can evoke the awareness of fading relation between human and nature and inspire people to create more interest things through the process of reconnecting the relationship with nature.

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