Proposed hotel at Qalet Marku : thesis report

Abstract

There is a problem in the design of modern hotels which everyone acknowledges but no one seems to know what to do about, or even express very well. The problem can become obvious when an architect who has never done a hotel is commissioned to do one; he suddenly finds himself differing strongly with his client, the client's interior designer and other "experts" in the hotel field regarding that part of architecture in which the architect feels most secure, and about which he is least accustomed to challenge - that is, aesthetics and the visual repercussions of design.