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Comment by Neil Rocher on March 29, 2010 at 11:24am

are there any other designers out there who concentrate purely on the hospitality side of design??

Comment by oz on December 6, 2009 at 4:47am

From creating spaces of luxury and elegance to whimsical flights of the imagination
http://baskervill.com/Portfolio/Hospitality/tabid/110/Default.aspx

Comment by Neil Rocher on December 6, 2009 at 2:22am

A pleasure to be part of this group and looking forwards to seeing how different people think of the hospitality side of architecture, here are a few of my thoughts.
The beauty of the “hospitality” market is that we do not have the constraints of the average architect/designer. In the hospitality market people are looking for an experience, they want the area, buildings and surroundings to be and feel different from their normal lives, it is a space that they are going to be in for a limited amount of time this allows more creative freedom as we are not concentrating so much on the practicalities. We are concentrating on the flow, the feel, the experience and the interpretation.
We are in the equivalent of the Hollywood as opposed to the Documentary side of Television, we do not create reality we create escapism. We want people to enter into a new world that takes their minds away from their everyday lives and transports them into a new state of mind and feeling. We are in the theatre, we design sets and stages where people escape for a few days from reality and reinvent and rejuvenate themselves therefore we do not need to be “practical”, we are not designing an existing space we are designing a living space a space where people feel alive and free.
We are responsible for taking people on a journey into an experience; we are responsible for creating a space to relax your mind, sooth your soul and awaken your spirit.
All very simple really.............

Comment by oz on November 11, 2008 at 3:38am

Notions of privacy and intimacy are important for the resort...for any resort. Alila Cha-Am is both a destination -- a place where different people come together -- and a respite. The architects must contend with spaces for groups (restaurants, pools) and individuals or couples (rooms, villas, spas). The outdoor spaces balance these poles, as do the buildings themselves, where levels of transparency vary from wide open in the restaurant to more selective in the private rooms. The solid materials of wood and stone gabions add further definition, the latter an especially strong demarcation between public and private zones.

Comment by Isabel Santos on June 9, 2008 at 7:13am

I appreciate tha you used the term hospitality architecture, I think is very apropiated and clever, this would help us cross bounderies and united us as a multicultural comunity.

Comment by Maria Amaro on May 18, 2008 at 11:49am

Hello, I am seing the page of this group and I have just signed up.
"Hospitality Architecture", that is a nice designation. Hospitable in the sense of receiving, giving comfort, giving shelter. ( Youth and Elder People´s Centers, Hotels, Tourism facilities ? ) The ethimology of the word "hospital" will probably confirm connections with those ideas too.
Bye-bye for now, I will try to visit the pages of MyArchN more often.
Maria