MRA ARCHITECTS

The Invisible Hotel

The hotel as an interface for disappearance
Either as an interval during a voyage or as temporary stay, the hotel as a living habitat is marked by a disappearance of the tenant from hers/his network of conventional presence (professional circle, family, etc.)

Invisible hotel the project

Place as a dominion (the marked region of a specific sphere of interest or range of a certain action), transforms to an enveloping membrane, a skin that folds in a space making movement.
The space that is thus produced is by virtue an in-between space.
A place of temporary, fictional reality, an invisible space.

The skin of the building as the tool of this transformation indicates this osmosis function between reality and fiction, permanent and temporal.

Αποκτά ρόλο μέσα στο τοπίο - δίκτυο, ως ενδιάμεσος χώρος , (μεσολαβητής), ανάμεσα στο τοπίο και τον επισκέπτη. Τα στοιχεία υποτάσσονται στην έννοια αυτή προσδοκώντας να αποδώσουν χωρικά αυτή την κατάσταση της συνέχειας και της διαδοχής.

It gains a role in landscape-network, as an intermediate space, between the landscape and the guest. The elements follow this sense willing to give spacious this condition of continuity and sequence.

Theme Ponds

The building program functions like a chemical catalyst.
A hotel is a specific mixture of public and more private areas. (there is never a really private space in a hotel)
The unique gravity of the intensely public areas, (entrance foyer, restaurant,) where place borders to spectacle, bends the space making skin controlling the dictating the geometry of the building.


Resident Interface

The room of the hotel is only conventionally the private part of the program.
Temporary cocoons of private time are generated as the tenant unfolds his personal belongings within the intermediate space of the hotel room.
The core of the hotel is the repository of these personal items.
The resident interface is a devise conceptual tool that combines this personal repository (traditionally the closet) with the portals for communication (TV, radio, telephone, internet, etc).
A folding of the rooms envelope brings the ultimate public in touch with the intimately private.

The room is the personal-temporal place that attempts, not to give individuality but to become a destination of a route of transitions.

Familiarity is not the issue, as by definition, the hotel is an intermediate and transit place.

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Science & Technology

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• CARTECO
• GREEK ARCHITECTS
• GREEK DESIGN
• DESIGN HOTELS
• DESTE FOUNDATION
• MERMIGA RAVANOS
• MRA ARCHITECTS
• MEMOS FILIPPIDIS.
• VASSILIOS P BARTZOKAS