Hotel design

Numerous types of hotel designs exist in the world. Examples of hotel designs include guest palaces across Asia, English country inns,[5] hotel-casino resorts,[6] designer and art hotels,[7] hotel-spa resorts, boutique hotels, "no-frills" hotels that offer very basic amenities at budget rates, basic rooming houses,[8] monasteries offering refuge[9] and spare bedrooms rented out in ordinary homes. Another type is capsule hotels, which are offered in Japan as an option for those who just need the basic necessities during their stay.[10] Historically, the development of lodging areas and facilities was sometimes driven by their physical locations, such as at river crossings, at major trading posts or in locations lending themselves to defense, such as forts or castles. Property location continues to be a key consideration in hotel design in contemporary times.[11] Many hotels throughout the United States cater to either tourists or residents. Visitors of the hotel have the options ranging from renting a room for one night or renting a suite for a month. Though residential hotels are not as popular today as they were in the past, they still provide a significant number of America's homes.[12]

The palm court of the 19th century was reinvented by John Portman who created an influential design of grand atrium for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in 1967.[13]

Contemporary hotel design can be sophisticated and functional, involving specialist architects and designers,[14] environmental and structural engineers, interior designers and skilled contractors and suppliers, particularly for large, intricate projects. Hotel design can involve the refurbishment of an existing building already used for lodging, the conversion of a building previously used for another purpose or the construction of new buildings. USA based Newport Design Group is considered among the Top Design Firms specializing in branded hotels for many of the top franchises. Other firms include ReardonSmith Architects, HOK, Gensler and WATG.

Hotel design involves planning regarding the estimated client needs for the facility along with the designers' vision. Hotel buildings may have several various functions, including restaurants,[15] outdoor facilities and swimming pools, fitness centers and spas. Contemporary hotel design involves effectively integrating these various aspects of hotel operations within a location to minimize interference with one another. For example, hotel design includes considerations to avoid guests being inundated with excessive noise and the movement of people. Hotels are usually designed from the inside-out to ensure the practical functionality and relationship of its parts.

Hotel designers bring to their work their own cultural mores and need to understand the culture in which the hotel will operate if working outside their native environment. Due to travel becoming international in scope, links with local traditions in many hotel designs have been weakened, and ‘International’ has become a style in its own right. Some hotels base their operations with a theme of vernacular local traditional styles, while others have modernist stylistic designs.

Hotel design ranges from basic variables, such as the appropriate height for bed head light switches to the more specialized, such as the right layout for a kitchen or the sightlines from reception areas to enable control and protection of entry to rooms. The pace of change in hotel design has, as in most areas of modern life, increased with the development of innovative technology.

Despite cultural variations, hotels commonly function to provide a welcome environment that supports the comfort of its guests for work, rest and relaxation.[16]

Hotels are consistently being updated to maintain the health of the hotel. During a remodel or renovation you will be dealing with the interior of the hotel like furniture, maintenance, and layout. The exterior of the hotel needs updates like roofing. Each year the amount of money put in the update is increasing. The furniture in the hotel every few years needs to be replaced. New areas to hotel like weight rooms, arcades or business rooms with computers are added to hotels as part of remodels. Maintenance updates throughout the hotel occur every 15–25 years. Hotels have been converting to be more eco-friendly.

During remodels and renovations sections of the hotel are block off while they work on that current part, then move on to the next section and continue this until all the work is finished. This way the hotel can stay open while remodeling.[17]

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• Richard H. Penner; Lawrence Adams; Stephani K. A. Robson (2012), Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 9780393733853
• Rutes, Walter A.; Penner, Richard H.; Adams; Lawrence (2001). Hotel Design, Planning, and Development. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393730555. Retrieved May 18, 2012. ISBN 0393730557
• Asensio, Paco; et al. (2004). Ultimate Hotel Design. teNeues Publishing Company. ISBN 9783823845942. Retrieved May 18, 2012. ISBN 3823845942
• Riewold, Otto (2002). New Hotel Design. Laurence King Publishing ltd. ISBN 9781856694797. Retrieved May 18, 2012. ISBN 1856694798

• Kaufman, David. "World's Best Hotel Design Details". Concierge.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2009. Retrieved 17 December 2020.