Hotel of the Future Design Studio report by Julian Varas

Hotel of the FutureTM Design Research Studio

Summer Semester 2004 Professor Marc AngĂŠlil Liat Uziyel & JuliĂĄn Varas

Hotel of the FutureTM

Martin Henn/Moritz Fleischmann

Design Research Studio

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH

RESEARCH THEMES

EXERCISES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FIELD RESEARCH

PROJECTS The Distributed Room

Sascha Deltz / Roman Loretan

Shallow Alteration Carsten Steinacker

Multi-Speed Community

Eckart Schwerdtfeger

Customization through Adaptation

Moritz Fleischmann / Martin Henn

Senseless Space Svenja Hรถrtdรถrfer / Jenny Keller

Hotel On Demand

Isabelle Bentz / Thomas Maiss

Urban Plug-in Roland Schreiber

Interfaces Annina Ludwig / Patrick Maisano / Martin Matter

Expose and Relate Nicolas Vedolin

TIMEPLAN

Sascha Deltz / Roman Loretan

PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH

Introduction Among architects, researchers and theoreticians, unprecedented forms of collaboration are challenging the conventional divide of academia and architectural praxis. Acknowledging the synergies created by their mutual complementation and cross-fertilization, the Design Research Studio The Hotel of the Future is an attempt to distill innovative architectonic concepts as a development of work initiated in 2003, through a collaborative effort betwen the enginnering and consultancy group ARUP and the EHLITE. Harnessing developments in the tourism industry for the production of novel architectural propositions, the studio will analyze trends in the culture of stay and accommodation in order to envisage scenarios and proposals for the near future. Over the course of thirteen weeks, reviews and seminars will provide the opportunity to discuss the projects with guest critics and specialists from the hospitality industry. Complementing the studio work, a week-long study trip through different hotels in Switzerland will offer the chance to look at both traditional and emerging forms of accommodation. An exhibition of the work, held at the end of the semester at the ETH Zürich, in conjunction with the production of a collective research report will compile the results of the investigation. Challenge While architectural production usually unfolds based on series of set programmatic determinations, the main challenge that this semester presents is that the conditions where the project will be operating, and where it will be evaluated will have to be constructed artiﬁcially as an integral part of the job. Working out future scenarios implies the need to delay ordinary modes of assessment, in order to avoid an automatic projection of current sensibilities onto a future condition. The creation of social, cultural, and programmatic scenarios will therefore become one of the central tasks of the studio -their successful modeling will hinge upon each student’s ability to negotiate between personal desires and observable societal trends.

Research The studio work sets out to provide architectural responses to the question: How will the hospitality industry evolve in the near future, and what possibilities will these developments trigger for hotel architecture, its spatial organization, type-forms, and visual expressions?

For the construction of the aforementioned scenarios, the research will need to be framed by a precise deﬁnition of the length of the period under investigation. By hotel-industry standards, a timeframe of about 5 to 20 years ahead of the present represents a realistic window for inquiry – less than 5 years being to immediate, more than 20 being of little relevance for the industry. These parameters should be taken as guidelines, without foreclosing the possibility of longer projections into the future.

Isabelle Bentz/Thomas Maiss

In fields of inquiry addressing processes that unfold in large spatio-temporal frames, speculations about future developments face similar difficulties. While in the hard sciences hypotheses can sometimes be confirmed by empirical observation spawned in a laboratory setting, in disciplines that deal with the interaction of multiple processes and individuals over long periods of time, accurate testing is virtually impossible. Confronted with the problem of making strategic decisions in the present, researchers in the field of management have developed a set of techniques known as Scenario Planning. Based on hermeneutics (the field of analytical interpretation) and heuristics (the domain of creative production) – combined with probability and set theory –, the goal of Scenario Planning is not to provide empirically verifiable statements, but to assess the robustness and efficacy of present decisions vis-à-vis hypothetic yet probable future conditions. Since architectural design involves a complex decision-making process, the need to make use of such techniques might prove beneficial. The organization of such methods will form part of the production of the design studio.

RESEARCH THEMES Within the general scope of the studio, teams made up of two students will undertake a speciﬁc line of research. These lines are broadly deﬁned in relation to the hotel-user (Theme A), the architectural assemblage (Theme B), and its integration within the urban context (Theme C). Teams will narrow down their research through their personal interpretation of the choices offered. The proposed research trajectories will be understood primarily as a thematic framework within which to operate. For all themes, research should be conducted on the basis of a combination of historical and contemporary case-studies, and complementary statistical information.

Theme A: Accommodation for intimate rituals Rather than equating the individual room with the idea of an architectural quantum for hotel typology, the question to be asked is: what parameters can be used to conﬁgure the notion of “unit”? Issues of privacy and sociability, standardization and personalization, identity and performance will be addressed. By analyzing patterns of intimate behavior between individuals, couples, or groups, micro-programmatic relations should be uncovered, and extrapolated in order to imagine their possible progression. It is expected that through the analysis of small-scale components, innovative conﬁgurations for the overall building will be formulated. Suggested steps: Take a series of paradigmatic cases – recent or historical – and analyze the functional and spatial relations among the typical components of hotel rooms. Investigate their performative aspects and establish systematic relations. Find other relations between these small-scale components and larger scale elements of the hotel. Analyze correspondences between behavioral traits typical of the time studied, and the characteristics of the rooms, their smaller components and their material qualities. Hypothesize on future socio-cultural scenarios, situate the project in that context and test how the created systems react. Reference text: Iñaki Ábalos, The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity. Chapter 6: “Huts, Parasites and Nomads: The Deconstruction of the House”.

Theme B: The Typological Assemblage This line will look at the relations between spatial and programmatic configurations at the level of the overall type organization. What are the social and architectural performances of spaces such as atria, lobbies, corridors, restaurants and elevators, beyond the functions assigned to them by traditional hotel planning? How do different systems of spaces within the hotel – i.e. public-private, serviced-served, etc.– interact and influence each other? Studies about the specific importance of the individual hotel components and spaces will have to be conducted. Sizes, distances, densities and temporalities of usage will describe an operative panorama or topological field of the internal relationships – a typological syntax. Suggested steps: Study patterns of activity throughout the building. Look at the ways in which guests interact amongst themselves and with the staff. Measure these interactions. How long do they take? In what places? Can the intensity of the interactions be measured? Can it be steered architecturally? You may look at routes connecting different parts of the building. Determine their efficiency or inefficiency for different types of users (guests, employees, visitors, etc.). Can they be short-circuited? Propose ways to alter the experience by prolonging, shortening, twisting or modifying the routes. Reference text: Bob Somol, “Start Spreading the News…” (on the New York, New York hotel in Las Vegas). ANY n xx.

Theme C: The Urban Aggregate (Dissolution and Hybridization) The hotel structure will be considered on the basis of its relation to the urban context. The focus will be on studying the way that life and services in the hotel are intricately linked to and complemented by (or isolated and detached from) the surrounding infrastructure offered by the city. Issues of accessibility, continuity with the urban fabric, integration into networks of urban facilities and attractions, and their temporal regimes will be explored, in order to envisage potentially unexplored combinations and forms of integration. Suggested steps: Analyze existing hotels and multi-functional complexes located in different urban settings. Examine and compare what they offer the guest in terms not just of services, but also of spaces (or of space understood as service). Establish systems of relations between the organization of the hotels and their urban context. Then imagine possible reactions within the hotel structure in relation to foreseeable shifts in the urban context. Reference text: Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York. (Chapters on the Downtown Athletic Club and The Waldorf Astoria)

EXERCISES 1. Event structure (tell the story) Duration: One week Input: Studio brief Reference: Jeff Kipnis, “Recent Koolhaas”, El Croquis 79. Sophie Calle: The Sleepers, 1979, and The Hotel, 1981. Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information. Chapter 6: Narratives of Space and Time. Output: Graphic presentation of a story (A0 size) + 0.50 cubic meter spatial piece/configuration related to the narrative. Description: The goal of the first exercise is to produce a narrative and a spatial speculation that will serve to recognize specific problems and narrow down areas of interest. Identify a fictional or a real character and describe the narrative of their stay in a hotel for the duration of a day – with a focus on the topics pertaining the theme selected (A, B, or C). Starting with a written script, the descriptions of the character and the sequence of events throughout the day will have to be specified by means of images, timelines and diagrams. A conceptual model is to be constructed addressing an aspect or spatial condition contained in the narrative.

3. Responsiveness Duration: Seven weeks Input: All the research pursued so far. Reference: Umberto Eco, Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeit schreibt? Section II.6.1 Was ist Wissenschaftlichkeit? Output: Global presentation of the research process and results in A0 format, models (scale to be determined in relation to each project), and an A4 dossier. Description: In the third phase, constraints and evaluations will be introduced in order to test the malleability of the prototypical organizations generated in the previous exercise. The projects will acquire formal speciﬁcity by relating to a site within the greater Zürich area. A precise construction of the program of the building will be expected, as well as a description of the future conditions in which it is being proposed. The project will develop its own criteria of evaluation, which may include the parameters studied in phases one and two, but will also need to look at other types of logics not previously dealt with (i.e. urban, technical, ﬁnancial, etc.) This will trigger a loop, where the projects should become increasingly responsive to their context in time and space. Finally, it is expected that the responsiveness of he project will be demonstrated through a number of instantiations in different geographical settings, user groups or temporal scenarios.

Martin Henn/Moritz Fleischmann

2. Systemic Prototypes Duration: Four weeks Input: Exercise 1 Reference: Donald Albrecht, New Hotels for Global Nomads. London: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2002. FOA, FOA Code Remix 2000, “On Prototypes” RAMTV, Negotiate my Boundary! Output: Two A0 panels + conceptual model(s) + A4 research dossier. Description: During this phase, the work will ground and refine the initial hypotheses by recourse to case studies. The goal is to generate a prototype based on systematic relations between the elements studied in each of the research themes, which will become specific in the next phase by adapting itself to local forces within a given context. The procedure involves two basic steps that should be developed in parallel. The first one is about collecting information (data, measurements, maps, diagrams), pertaining to the research theme and organizing it into arrays, charts and networks to disclose trends and critical relations that could be exploited by the project. The second step consists in formulating a series of versions of the prototype through drawings, diagrams, notations, and models. Identifying or stating conventional systems and components from any of the examples studied may help to define the product. Innovations will be introduced by twisting, shrinking or maximizing relations within the prototypes.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Theme A

ABALOS, Iñaki, The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity. Barcelona: Gustavo Gilli, 2001. chapter 6: Huts, Parasites and Nomads: The Deconstruction of the House. Theme B BRAHAM, William, “After Typology: The Suffering of Diagrams”. In: RAHIM, Ali, Contemporary Processes in Architecture. AD 145, 2000. KIPNIS, Jeffrey, “Recent Koolhaas”, In: El Croquis N. 79, 1997 SOMOL, Bob, “Start Spreading the News…”. In: Any N. 21. New York, 1997. Theme C ABALOS, Iñaki, HERREROS, Juan, “Hybrids”. In: Quaderns. KOOLHAAS, Rem, Delirious New York. A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997. KOOLHAAS, Rem, “The Generic City”. In: SMLXL, New York: The Monacelli Press, 1995. Pp. 1239-1264. ZAERA POLO, Alejandro, “Order Out of Chaos. The Material Organization of Late Capitalism”. In: The Periphery. Architectural Design Proﬁle 108. March-April 1994. On hotels JAMESON, Fredric, “Postmodernism and Consumer Society”. In: The Cultural Turn. Selected Writings on the Postmodern 1983-1998. London: Verso, 1998. (See paragraph on the Bonaventure Hotel) JAMESON, Fredric, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. London: Verso, 1991. Pp. 38-45. KRACAUER, Sigfried, The Mass Ornament. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995. On hotel design ALBRECHT, Donald, New Hotels for Global Nomads. London: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2002. RIEWOLDT, Otto, New Hotel Design. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2002. RUTES, Walter A., PENNER, Richard A., ADAMS, Lawrence, Hotel Design. Planning and Development. London: Architectural Press, 2001. (great book!)

On scenario planning INABA, Jeffrey, “Plan for Now”. In: LEACH, Neil (ed.), E-Futures. Designing for a Digital World. London: WileyAcademy, 2002. KELLY, Kevin, Out of Control. The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1994. Chapter 22: “Prediction Machinery”. WILKINSON, L., “How to Build Scenarios”. Available at: http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/build.html http://www.well.com/~mb/scenario/ On method and research DEKLEVA, Aljosa et alt., Negotiate my Boundary! Mass Customisation and Responsive Environments. London: Architectural Association, 2002. ECO, Umberto, Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeit schreibt? Hamburg: C. F. Müller Verlag, 2003. See the paragraph: “Was ist Wissenschaftlichkeit”, pp. 39-46. FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS, “FOA Code Remix 2000”. In: 2G International Architecture Review, N. 16, 2000/4. pp. 122-143. See the paragraphs: “On Prototypes”, “On Measurements and Quantiﬁcation”, and “On Process”. LOOTSMA, Bart, “Reality Bytes. The Meaning of Research in the Second Modern Age”. In: Daidalos, December 1998/January 1999. 69/70. STEELE, Brett, “Data(e)scape. Design as Research”. In: Daidalos 69/70. 1998-1999. On diagrams TUFTE, Edward, Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Conn.: Graphics Press, 1990. Chapter 6: Narratives of Space and Time. BERTIN, Jacques, Graphische Semiologie. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1974. Tourism JUDD, Dennis R., FAINSTEIN, Susan S. (Eds.), The Tourist City. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Introduction. Pp. 1-17. MVRDV, Costa Iberica. Barcelona: Actar, 2001. http://www.swisshotels.ch http://www.stzh.ch/ssz/themen/tourismus.asp http://www.zurichtourism.ch http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_ch/ber10/eber10.htm http://www.world-tourism.org

Roman Loretan/Sascha Deltz

Swiss Hotel Association: Tourism in Zürich: Tourism in Switzerland: World Tourism Organization:

FIELD RESEARCH

STUDY TRIP THROUGH SWITZERLAND

THE DISTRIBUTED ROOM SASCHA DELTZ & ROMAN LORETAN

The invention of the automobile turned out to be the requisite for a major shift within the hotel industry. Motels satisfied the new needs generated by a suddenly highly mobile community that had not existed previously. At the beginning of the 21st century, the fast development of communication, travel, and navigation systems are becoming the premise for yet another shift in the organisational structure of the hotel: from the contained entity to the distributed room. Due to the general rise in mobility, travelling has become more significant and convenient but also more indifferent toward its destinations. This project assumes that such development requests a new way for the traveller to relate to his location. By integrating the hotel as part of private buildings, rather than enclaves of public life, the traveller can become part of the city‘s community, unveiling new locations where parallel ways of living the public and the private are possible. Through minimal surgical interventions in the city, units of accomodation can be placed partially within, in-between, or on top of existing buildings, sharing parts of these and thus modifying the relationship between the houses and commercial properties, its inhabitants and the city‘s guests. These accommodation units have the capacity to be re-programmed at a later point, into other forms of urban shelter. The distributed room acts as a prototype to regenerate a part of the city. The hotel - representative of shelter - embraces diverse forms of communities, employing a variety of services and urban infrastructures. By inserting such a catalyst into a site, a platform for further interventions is created. Through small-scale modifications on the existing built fabric, it opens up accessibility to both residents and visitors to forgotten parts of the city and can offer an identity to a fragmented district. The specific characteristics of each location are carried over into the unit design through the customization of furniture elements and façade patterning, which is organized according to urban views.

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MULTI-SPEED COMMUNITY ECKART SCHWERDTFEGER

MSC seeks to short-circuit the established patterns of social relations among different hotel guest typologies. The conventional spatial needs of each guest-type are analyzed and transformed into forces that organize the room layout. Residual areas are turned into semi-private social mixers, with direct access to the streets and common services.

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CUSTOMIZATION THROUGH ADAPTATION MARTIN HENN & MORITZ FLEISCHMANN

A linear prototype classiﬁes and orders functions according to a gradient of privacy. Through the extensive use of folding partitions, most private areas can be integrated into a generic lobby space, allowing the hotel to re-program the unused areas for maximum spatial efﬁciency.

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design research studio hotel of the future professor marc angelil 8

martin henn moritz fleischmann

C U S T O M I Z A T I O N _ c h o i c e the basic equipment (bed, bathroom, TV...) of every hotelroom around the world is the same.

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>>> why shouldn`t the functions of a room be customized to your individual needs?

A D A P T A T I O N _ o c c u p a n c y the average occupation rate of a hotel over the course of a year ranges between 40 and 50 percent. accordingly more than half of the space is not in use for most of the time...

t r a n s i t i o n the flat section of segment 1 is blending into the rectangular section of segment 8. the yellow connection piece converts from a horizontal line (0°) into a 1 meter square (90°). the composition of different sections creates a choice of 36 different prototypes.

32 m² p l a n each prototype consists of 8 segments. the cross section of the first and the last segment define the shape in between.

c o n d i t i o n s

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40 m² a i m our aim was to develope a geometrical shape that was capable of being all in one: _private space _semi-/public space _structure _circulation element

the tool is generating the shape of the prototype consisting of two slabs and a connecting piece (yellow ) in between. the connecting piece is able to shift by 90 degrees creating different constellations between slab one & two.

e x p e r i m e n t the idea was to develope a formal tool. the tool would allow us to test the conclusions of our research and push them further.

p r o t o t y p e f u n c t i o n p u b l i c

structure concrete slab

the light grey slab represents the public space.

vacant room public use

occupied room private use

transformation public >> private

i n _ b e t w e e n the yellow slab is the flexible part of the structure. it can fold up to enclose a hotel room.

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according to the position of the yellow slab, the dark gray slab is either public or private space.

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the yellow slabs are foldable and able to adapt themselves to the specific use of the space.

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f u n c t i o n the yellow slab reveals a function, which can be pulled out and used. the functions are exchangeable.

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freedom of choice the room S L A B S

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landscape of folded slabs reception , storage & lounge

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horizontal connection

prototypes with the same sections can be connected horizontally.

vertical stacking

separating walls

prototypes can be stacked on top of each other observing two rules:

when the slabs fold up to separate a hotel room, the constructive slabs can be extended to enclose the room

_minimum room height of 3 m _projection line of circulation slabs have to be aligned

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C O N N E C T E D P O R O T O T Y P E I N B E T W E E N S P A C E S

S T A I R C A S E S staircases are allocated every 40m (= 5 prototypes).

E S C A L A T O R S prototypes cosisting of two 90 degree ends inherit an esacalator.

E L E V A T O R S are used for the direct vertical access of the building. the 2 X 2 m Cabins are flowing freely through the structure, since they are placed near the cores.

C O N N E C T E D P R O T O T Y P E S the simple rules of connection generate a homogenous structure.

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P L A N

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access car park the car park is located underneath the building. (100 parking spaces)

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market

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the infrastructure of the market is refined by a landscape of pathways, benches and roofs.

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the church represents the strongest architectural counterpart to the hotel.

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shopping the train station is extended by shops and restaurants overlooking the square

metro station the plaza is sloping down towards the entrance facade of the train station

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HOTEL ON DEMAND ISABELLE BENTZ & THOMAS MAISS

Since the advent of modernism, the idea of standardization embodied both an ethics of efficiency and egalitarianism. But, what happens when technological development allows the customization of spaces and services, without hindering the overall efficacy of the system? Exploring the conditions and opportunities opened by such context, Hotel on Demand proposes an architecture that can respond to shifting market conditions with agility, while offering custom forms of organization and combinations of services. Through a rigorous analysis of patterns of movement, the usage of space in the Ibis Hotel room is translated into a three dimensional model. By visualizing the space that remains unused, a new interpretation of the room space triggers possibilities for a recombination of its component elements. The basic prototype of this project is no longer the hotel room, but small functional modules that are shaped according to their possible usage. The project looks for ergonomical optimization, yet not in the modernist spirit of „existenz minimum“, but rather to exploit existing redundancy by giving it a new function, or by allowing existing configurations to mutate over time following demand, thus adding a temporal dimension to the idea of architecture. More than an specific project for a particular site, the architecture proposed is really a system geared towards flexibility and personalization, that is able to offer the guest a combination of services suited to their particular needs. Taking advantage of the expansion of mobile wireless communication, an web-based interface allows the guest to book the requested services from a catalog of onthe-spot, computer-generated combinations of spaces and services. The actual organization of the private areas in the hotel can be re-configured through sliding partitions to accommodate demand efficiently. The prototype was tested on three different cities and urban conditions, to which it responded by adopting a specific typological configurations for each case: linear (Zürich HB), planar (Brussels) and tower organizations (Basel).

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structure: vireindeel beams between units, reaching ground integrated in vertical connection units

cirulation: elevators, stairs and elevators are serving different areas. navigation by cellphone or palm

three open levels. cut surface as lighting system

secon floor, 1_200

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08.03.04

Studio timeplan

15.03.04

Hotel of the Future introduction and brief hand out

start summer semester 2004

Architectural Association Unit 9 - John Bell & Theo Lorenz studio exchange

Hotel of the Future: Phase 1 Event Structure (tell a story)

22.03.04

29.03.04

The Million Dollar Hotel showcase AA & ETHZ project

05.04.04

Review 1: 09.00 (thesis identification) Marcelyn Gow, Dirk Hebel Schindler registration deadline 15.04.2004

Hotel of the Future: Phase 2 Systematic Prototypes

12.04.04

Lecture: Russell Loveridge Intelligent Architecture

19.04.04

Workshop: Marc Angélil 09.00 26.04.04

Seminar: 13.00 HIL G61 Stefan Fraenkel (EHL) - Service Industry

site or context addressed 03.05.04

VELUX registration deadline 05.05.2004

Hotel of the Future: Phase 3 Responsiveness Schindler competition launch Lecture: Cj Lim

SEMINAR WEEK 5 Days / 4 Nights* seminar week exhibition Lecture: Neil Leach

10.05.04

17.05.04

Workshop: HIL G61 guest tutorials with cj Lim

Lost in Translation Hotel Du Lac

24.05.04

31.05.04

07.06.04

Architekturforum exhibition

Review 2: 13.00 (analysis & project formation) Marcus Jung, Hannes Wettstein

14.06.04

Review 3: 13.00 Neil Leach / Marc Angélil / Markus Schaeffer

The Hotel

internal review?

21.06.04

Summer Party

final first year reviews

28.06.04

end summer semester 2004 05.07.04

Planning Hotel exhibit / publication and preparartion for Schindller submission

Review 4: 10.00 Final Presentation & exhibition Brett Steele / Luis Ortega / Albert Pope Eduardo Leston / Bob Somol / Penelope Dean� presentation at EHLITE

12.07.04

19.07.04

26.07.04

02.08.04 Guests & Reviews: AA & ETHZ Showcase (01.04.04): 18.00 - HIL C30 John Bell, Theo Lorenz, Tanja Siems, Marcus Jung, Cary Siress Review 1 (07.04.04): Theme identification: 09.00am - HIL G61 Marcelyn Gow (SERVO), Tobias Lutz (Architonic), Dirk Hebel Seminar (13.04.04): 14.00 Intelligent Architectures - HIL G61 Russell Loveridge Workshop - Roundtable (22.04.04): 09 .00 HIL G61 Marc Angélil, Chris Luebkemann Seminar (27.04.04): 13.00 - HIL G61 Stefan Fraenkel (EHL), ‘Hotels & the Service Industry’. Review 2 (05.05.04): 13.30 Analysis & Project Formation - (Chris Luebkeman), Marcus Jung, Hannes Wettstein (Zednetwork) short Presentation 18.00: Hannes Wettstein Seminar (11.05.04): Guest Tutor Cj Lim (London, The Bartlett) Review 3 (02.06.04): 13.00 Neil Leach, Markus Schäffer, Marc Angelil. (Lecture by Neil Leach, Camouflage 18.00) Workshop - (Date to be discussed): Marc Angélil, Assistants Review 4 (30.06.04): 10.00 Product / final review - Chris Luebkeman(UK), Bret Steele(UK), Bob Somol(USA), Luis Ortega(Sp), Albert Pope(USA), Penelope Dean(Aus), Eduardo Leston(Arg)

-------- Special events -------- Hotel of the Future program timetable -------- Seminar / Reviews / Lectures -------- Competition line

Martin Henn/Moritz Fleischmann

CREDITS

Professor: Marc Angélil Faculty: Liat Uziyel and Julian Varas Workshop tutors: Stefan Fraenkel (EHLITE, Lausanne), C.J. Lim (Bartlett School of Architecture, London) Guest critics: Penelope Dean (Editor, Hunch Magazine, Rotterdam), Marcelyn Gow (ETH Zürich), Dirk Hebel (ETH Zürich), Markus Jung (ETH Zürich), Chris Luebkeman (ARUP, London), Lluis Ortega (Editor, Quderns d’Arquitectura I Urbanisme, Barcelona), Markus Schaefer (Hosoya-Schaeffer, Zürich), Bob Somol (University of California, Los Angeles), Brett Steele (Architectural Association, London). Sponsors and consultants: Architonic ARUP Bel Etage EHLITE D-Arch ETH Zürich

Isabelle Bentz/Thomas Maiss

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Department of Architecture Zürich, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil

Faculty: Liat Uziyel and Julián Varas ETH Zürich 20.12.04 cover image: Roman Loretan & Sascha Deltz