Hotel Architecture Research Articles

A Review of Biophilic Design Concepts in Hotel Architecture

Incorporating natural materials and features into the built environment is the goal of the creative approach known as biophilic design, which aims to link people with nature through architecture and interior design. The premise of the theory is that people are naturally drawn to nature and that spending time in nature can improve productivity, well-being, and general quality of life. It has been demonstrated that biophilic architecture design can convey a healthy environment, lower stress levels, and promote a sense of serenity for people residing in it. This is because the design uses natural materials and natural patterns to create a connection between humans and the natural world. This study looks into the application of biophilic design ideas in hospitality environments. This study aims to investigate if, in the context of hotels, including biophilic design improves guest emotional responses, perceived quality, and behavioral intentions. The results of this study showed that biophilic designs produced more favorable emotional and behavioral reactions than the standard design using the scenario-based experiment. Furthermore, patrons thought hotels with biophilic decor were of higher caliber. The goal of biophilic design is to incorporate natural aspects into the built environment to improve overall guest experience, comfort, and well-being. It is based on the human connection to nature. Site inspections, management interviews, and visitor surveys are a few of the data collection techniques used in hotels. The results provide important insights for architects, designers, and hoteliers looking to build more sustainable and guest-centric settings by illuminating the challenges, advantages, and consequences of using biophilic design in a hospitality context.

Hotel Architecture in the French Colonization Era

Often quoted as the queen of an oasian region, namely the Zibans, Biskra, a southern Algerian city, was a famous winter station renowned for its tourist character during the French colonization (1830-1962). This stimulated the colonizing authorities to build several hospitality buildings, the largest of which were edified using imported constructive techniques, but with local constructive materials and several local spatial organizations and regional decorative motives. In continuation of previous research work carried out by the first author of this article, this study aims to analyse and classify Biskra’s main hotels to draw up an architectural typology using Philippe Panerai’s method. As a result, four models were identified within the corpus of the study, including seven (7) hotels. Its findings could be considered as strong, helpful support for future research in the field of architectural heritage, regardless of building typology, as well as an appropriate database for the heritage buildings’ practical preservation. Moreover, such research work should inform about other various underrated and misjudged heritage buildings dating from the colonial era in Algeria.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Architectural View

History has witnessed that pandemics shape the human mindset, working ability, social and economic constraints, management strategies, environment, cities, and its planning as well. The study concentrates to provide an overview of COVID-19 by reviewing previous research and literature available on sixteen different countries; along with their hotel architecture, which played a crucial role by offering shelters to infected populations. The study aims to explore the situation of COVID-19 in a global context, by studying 16 different countries on hotels, design parameters, and urban planning in order to prepare the industry for the future for such pandemics/disasters; , with a glimpse of the effect on basic amenities. Additionally, the study made to work on finding every possible aspect (guidelines, measures, strategies, and planning standards) during and post-pandemic with hotels, architecture, and urban planning.

The Saharan Hotel Architecture of Fernand Pouillon in Algeria: Creation of a Contemporary Architecture Adapted to the Climatic Context

The Saharan Hotel Architecture of Fernand Pouillon in Algeria: Creation of a Contemporary Architecture Adapted to the Climatic Context

The role of hotel architecture in shaping the city’s image

The elements of the environment are characterized by variability. The structure of the city is also a subject to constant structural, social and material transformations.
 Objects in the city can play significant role for urban landscape. In recent years, it can be observed that the architecture of hotels in cities is becoming more and more unique. After years of building similar hotel facilities, architects began to create more and more original forms that attract the attention of passers-by and are remembered. The importance of individual places in the hierarchy of these space is also changing. Hotels are elements thatbuild the image of cities, often becoming their visual dominant. This applies to creating a sculpture in a space that catch attention with its form and play of colors.
 The aim of the article is to show, on the example of selected projects, how hotel buildings can shape urban images. The research method is based on the analysis of selected objects and showing their role in shaping the image of the city. The concept of the hotel influences the building of identity. The form of the hotel, the functionality, the materials, and their combination, create the semantic experience for observer. The hotel becomes a ‘story’ narrative that gives visitors or pedestrians a personal feeling of reading architecture.
 According to Kevin Lynch (1960:8), the external image we perceive can be analyzed by combining three factors: identity, structure and meaning. Identity is identifying an object, distinguishing it from others, making it exclusive. Thus, fragments of space of greater importance are created in the city, which are shaped in terms of public utility. These areas, having greater value, are also of greater prestige for the city. They add as well the aesthetic energy to the city.

Pamukkale de Faaliyet Gösteren 4 ve 5 Yıldızlı Termal Otel İşletmelerine Yönelik E-Şikayetlerin İncelenmesi

Today, before selecting a hotel, in general, the customers take a look at the online comments. checking these comments, the customers mostly glance through negative comments rather than positive ones. The former guests who previously had an experience at the hotel and shared their comments about it serve as a guide in the hotel selection for the prospective customers. This studyaims to categorize the complaints made on online platforms by guests about the four-star and five-star thermal hotels in Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) in Denizli province of Turkey and to identify the topics on which these complaints mostly focused. To this end, 474 negative comments posted on the website of Tripadvisor about a total of 12 four-star and five-star hotels located in Pamukkale were evaluated via the content analysis. The e-complaints made by the thermal hotel customers were divided into different categories. Of these categories, the ones with the highest number of complaints are the categories of service, food/beverage, hotel architecture, and hotel staff. The topics with the highest number of complaints are the room/bathroom hygiene, food taste, and the staff’s attitude. In the conclusion of the study, the recommendations to urge the hotels to make necessary improvements to their products and services, take precautions aimed at the topics of complaint, and enhance customer satisfaction were proposed.

The Valuation of Aesthetic Preferences and Consequences for Urban Transport Infrastructures

The importance of transport infrastructure for individual well-being and regional economic development and growth, but also its adverse side-effects, make a comprehensive assessment of the general appropriateness of new construction and rebuild indispensable. Assessments, however, often lack certain issues. For instance, aesthetic aspects are usually not part of the (economic) evaluation of large infrastructure projects, albeit individuals may be (positively or negatively) affected by the aesthetic ‘value’ of infrastructures. This paper proposes the aesthetic index developed by Birkhoff as a method to quantify the aesthetic impact of buildings/facilities in urban areas. To test the basic applicability of the index for transport infrastructure facilities, we apply it at first to airport terminals in Germany. We also test the suitability of the index to derive the willingness to pay for aesthetic exterior design—since market prices are easy to obtain with respect to hotel room rates—using hotel architecture as the first example. Regression results of a hedonic price model indicate a significant relationship, suggesting the basic suitability of the index to uncover consumers’ willingness to pay for an aesthetic outward appearance. We suggest further research to test the suitability of Birkhoff’s index for general urban transport infrastructures in order to derive utility-based welfare measures toward aesthetic issues. For highly controversial urban (overground) infrastructures, we propose the inclusion of an aesthetic component in cost–benefit analysis.

Hotel architecture in historical cities

Hotel architecture in historical cities

Hotel Architecture as a Marker of Historical and Cultural Locations: the Main Vectors of Development

Hotel Architecture as a Marker of Historical and Cultural Locations: the Main Vectors of Development

Grand Hotels Around the Kvarner Bay: Seaside Hospitality Between Austria and Hungary

The hotel architecture around the Kvarner bay represents a specific Austro-Hungarian response to the Riviera phenomenon, made possible by the railway connections to the continental capitals of the Empire with the port of Rijeka. Through a detailed comparison between different investments and realisations, the article explores the ways of dealing with the hotellerie in the coastal area administratively divided between Austria, Hungary and Croatia in the last decades of the 19th century and the years leading to WWI.

Grand Hotels Around the Kvarner Bay: Seaside Hospitality Between Austria and Hungary

The hotel architecture around the Kvarner bay represents a specific Austro-Hungarian response to the Riviera phenomenon, made possible by the railway connections to the continental capitals of the Empire with the port of Rijeka. Through a detailed comparison between different investments and realisations, the article explores the ways of dealing with the hotellerie in the coastal area administratively divided between Austria, Hungary and Croatia in the last decades of the 19th century and the years leading to WWI.

Contemporary hotel architecture in the mountain landscape of the Silesian Beskids

The subject of the article is contemporary the hotel architecture arising in the mountain areas of the Silesian Beskids. This area of southern Poland, located on the border with the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, has been for decades an attractive place for the weekend and holiday recreation for residents of large Polish cities, especially the inhabitants of the Upper Silesian region. In XX century, there was a rapid development of mass tourism. The most touristically developed and prepared to receive mass numbers of holidaymakers are villages located in the northern and central parts of the Silesian Beskids: Ustroń, Wisła, Brenna, Szczyrk. Numerous hotels and guesthouses have been created at the time and also in recent years to service holiday makers coming from big cities. The author presents the main trends in the architecture of the holiday homes built there. The first of these trends is a guest house and hotel architecture referring to the traditional local folk architecture. We come across various forms here: historicism, the neo-natural style, and less often the contemporary interpretation of old forms. The second trend is inter-war, modernist guesthouses. The third trend is large-scale holiday homes from the ‘70s and’ 80s of the 20th century in the style of post-war socmodernism. In addition to these currents, in recent years, numerous facilities have been created in many tourist resorts that do not exhibit regional features, similar to suburban buildings in other regions. Some of them imitate local or foreign patterns. An example of that approach would be holiday houses in the “Alpine” or “Bavarian” style. As an example of searching for contemporary hotel architecture undertaking a dialogue with local construction and mountain landscape, the author presents his own project of the Three Nations Meeting House in the village of Istebna. The mission of the Meeting House was to allow and increase activities aimed at integrating the regions of Central Europe.

Dwellers that do not Belong, Dwellings that no Longer Exist: Staging Hotel Interiors and (Unhomely) Domesticity in Experimental Documentary Film

Commonly known as non-places or stopping places, hotels create their own sense of domesticity and seclusion, simultaneously invoking an uncanny screen presence due to their non-contradictory nature. Likewise, this article builds on the theory of an architectural uncanny and weirdness to analyze how Chantal Akerman’s Hôtel Monterey and Pat O’Neill’s The Decay of Fiction delineate interior spaces to evoke an (un)homely domesticity and (un)belonging human presence. In particular, to prioritize the hotel architecture, Akerman relies on a partial and fragmentary representation of interiors, whose larger picture is always beyond spectators’ vision, and O’Neill’s creates an engrossing tension between haptic visuality and optical perception, which gives rise to the fetishism of decay. Consequently, while Hôtel Monterey’s indoor architecture presents a spectacle of largely mute, impenetrable spaces with no or little human interaction, The Decay of Fiction’s domestic spaces form a permeable layer through which shadowy figures continuously enact their fictional roles.

АРХІТЕКТУРНО-ПЛАНУВАЛЬНА ОРГАНІЗАЦІЯ ГОТЕЛЬНИХ СПОРУД

The article covers historical, social, economic and other factors that directly or indirectly contributed to the formation of temporary accommodation for people in the path of their professional or other type of activity.  The reasons for the appearance of concept hotels in the world are analyzed. The reasons for the appearance of concept hotels in the world are analyzed.  The experience of different countries is examined, as well as the precedents of conceptual hotels are revealed.  An attempt was made to organize and classify concept hotels. Analyzed the most common type of conceptual hotels - luxury hotel. The basic tendencies are revealed, conclusions of the study are made. An attempt is made to follow the development of this type of accommodation and the current state of hotel architecture. Different types of hotel structures are presented in the work.  The architectural and planning features of the hotels and the evolution of the hotel architecture over the last two centuries are outlined.  Bright examples of development of architectural and planning organization of hotels of different periods of construction are given.

Soft innovation in hotel services: case of Izmir City

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to figure out the impacts of soft innovation in the city hotels in general, whereas the focus is on figuring out if there exists a difference in vitality on the components of soft innovation among the hotel categories, as 4 stars, 5 stars and boutique hotels in Izmir, Turkey. Design/methodology/approach The first part is related to a detailed literature review on the soft innovation components as color, sound, light, scent and decoration. Literature review is followed by a qualitative research where expert information on the research topic is collected. Judgmental sampling is used to identify experts’ views where in-depth semi-structured interviews are conducted with 12 hotel managers in Izmir city. The soft innovation hotel application areas taken into consideration are: lobby and reception, rooms, restaurant, bar and ballroom areas, meeting and congress halls, SPA and pools, gardens and landscape and other exterior hotel architecture. Findings The findings of the research reveal the sample hotel managers’ views as all the soft innovation applications are important for all city hotels regardless of their category, meaning that soft innovation may lead to better marketing results. Thus, according to hotel managers, soft innovation offerings have a potential for better customer satisfaction as positive feedback. However, the vitality degree among components changes according to the hotel’s category. For boutique hotels the most important component is found to be the decoration of the hotel, whereas for 4 stars hotels it is light and for 5 stars hotels it is scent. Research limitations/implications The results of this study give relatively limited information because only managers’ point of view are shown. In the research, customers’ perceptions on soft innovation based interviews with the top management of the hotels studied takes place, indicating which may not be the case to reflect the real perception of customers. Therefore, for further researches, it is recommended for the other researches to take into consideration of customers’ point of views as well. Also, time limitation, sample size and application of only qualitative research may be stated as the limitations for this study. Quantitative research applies to customers on the same topic and problem statement is recommended for further studies related to city hotels’ soft innovation applications. Practical implications Motivation of this study is to understand how soft innovation can change hotels’ atmosphere and make it more attractive from the managers’ perceptions. According to hotel managers’ views, soft innovation applications may lead to higher customer satisfaction, but the level of investment among the components may change according to the city hotel’s category. Research implications indicate that hotel managers may optimize the effectiveness of their soft innovation efforts by taking into consideration their hotel type, application areas and innovation category as decoration, color, scent, sound and light. According to hotel managers, decoration-related soft innovation is more important to boutique hotels, lighting-related soft innovation is an effective investment for 4 stars hotels and scent-related soft innovation is a suitable investment for 5 stars hotels. Originality/value The originality of the study lies in the analysis of the components of soft innovation as a means for effective city hotel marketing and innovative management applications. Though it is a very suitable industry for implementation, improvement and development, there are limited studies on soft innovation applications in the hotel industry.

El hotel turístico. Viaje a los orígenes de su arquitectura, 1880-1932

Si existe una arquitectura claramente adscrita al turismo de masas, esa es la del hotel. El hotel constituye la pieza minima por excelencia ya que es necesaria para convertir un lugar en un destino turistico. Para estudiar sus caracteristicas se propone indagar en el origen y en la evolucion de su arquitectura. El objetivo es descubrir el momento del transito del hotel urbano de patio interior y manzana cerrada, pautado por el lenguaje historicista, al hotel panoramico y abierto al paisaje litoral que converge con la arquitectura de vanguardia del siglo XX. Para ello, se establecen dos lineas de investigacion que combinan el principio de ordenacion historica con la metodologia genealogica y la experimental. La primera, tiene como protagonista al gran hotel de la estacion turistica europea, maximo representante de la actividad ludica, simbolica, economica y cultural del siglo XIX. La segunda, versa en torno a la arquitectura del sanatorio antituberculoso alpino, modelo de referencia una vez que se generalizan los principios medico-higienistas que le dieron forma, y profundiza en la contaminacion arquitectonica que se desencadena entre estos y el gran hotel. Finalmente, y a modo de conclusion, la tesis doctoral se adentra en la consolidacion del modelo de hotel turistico panoramico como resultado de estas imbricaciones.

Czech hotels in the late-modernist style set against the landscape

This paper looks at the changes in hotel architecture in post-war Czechoslovakia. In particular, the way in which architects, either with the support of or, in some cases, in resistance to the political dictate, handled the inspirational influences that came from abroad. Namely the Soviet models forced on them, or the ideas that seeped through from the other side of the Iron Curtain that were closer to the Czech modernist environment. The resulting approach of compromises and mixing influences, typical for a small country in the middle of Europe, gave rise to imaginative combinations of the universal principles of the International Style with structural experiments, a return to sophistication and refined craftsmanship, a cautious criticism of Modernism, or an intensive effort to strike a balance and harmony with the poetic character of the landscape.

The effects of architectural congruence perceptions on winery visitors’ emotions and behavioral intentions: The case of Marqués de Riscal

Abstract This study examines the influence of the perceived congruence of a postmodernist hotel, which was built at one of Spain's oldest wineries, on visitors’ emotions and behavioral intentions. Due to the rather unpredictable nature of Frank Gehry's architectural landmarks, the delight model was used to investigate the effects of congruence perceptions – as related to the local landscape, visitors’ self-image and the winery's brand image – on arousal, delight and behavioral intentions. Data were collected from travelers who had visited a winery in Spain and structural equation modeling was used for analysis. The results suggest that the perceived congruence between the hotel architecture, the local landscape and the winery's brand image positively affect visitors’ arousal and delight. On the other hand, the perceived congruence between the hotel architecture and visitors' self-image only improves arousal. Arousal also affects delight and both of these emotions significantly increase visitors’ behavioral intentions. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in detail.

Emoção como signo dos espaços em meios de hospedagem

O objetivo desta pesquisa é sistematizar a emoção como categoria de análise da arquitetura contemporânea, construída potencial e hipoteticamente a partir da arquitetura hoteleira. Para tanto, a pesquisa se caracterizou como exploratória, respaldada pelo levantamento e leitura bibliográficos, bem como estudos de caso e análises empíricas; o método interpretativo foi amparado pela lógica da abdução nos termos de uma semiótica peirceana. Os resultados inferem sobre a possibilidade da emoção como categoria de análise da arquitetura contemporânea, dita também (por muitos) como pós-moderna; superando-se generalizações racionalistas funcionais de sua predecessora arquitetura moderna.

Arquitetura hoteleira sob a ótica da sustentabilidade e da hospitalidade do espaço: um estudo sobre a aplicação dos conceitos de sustentabilidade e hospitalidade do espaço em projetos de hotéis

Este estudo procura discutir os conceitos de sustentabilidade e hospitalidade do espaço no contexto da arquitetura da cidade contemporânea que, de alguma maneira foram reinterpretados ou questionados no que se refere ao conceito de sustentabilidade ambiental. Neste sentido, o objetivo principal da pesquisa foi analisar dois projetos de hotéis em Santa Catarina, um de pequeno porte e outro de grande porte, onde essas condições se manifestaram de forma estanques ou não sistematizadas em alguns exemplares da arquitetura hoteleira, como referência conceitual da arquitetura sustentável e hospitaleira. A metodologia caracterizada por um levantamento bibliográfico inicial, pesquisa documental, seguida de um estudo de campo caracterizado por uma observação direta intensiva, sistemática e em equipe, com práticas de observação e aplicação de entrevista (Marconi e Lakatos, 2006) procurou resgatar a história da arquitetura hoteleira para identificar conteúdos de sustentabilidade ambiental e de hospitalidade do espaço construído, para em seguida analisar os exemplares da arquitetura hoteleira selecionados, que manifestam estas condições. Percebeu-se com o estudo que dentro de suas realidades e tamanhos, ambos os empreendimentos estudados contam com ações e elementos que podem ser considerados sustentáveis, bem como ações ambientalmente amigáveis, o que, inevitavelmente podem ser considerados como ações propiciadoras da hospitalidade. Da mesma forma, contam com potencialidades a serem desenvolvidas