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SCATTERED HOTEL
Master of Architecture Studio Remoteness 1st Supervisor 2nd Supervisor Student
Prof. Joris Fach Ignacio Boscolo Prof. Roger Bundschuh Maria Giemza
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introduction remoteness tourism growth program scattered hotel technical solutions
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INTRODUCTION
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While the world keeps densifying and urbanizing, we tend to be more and more removed from nature. Our lives are almost entirely spent indoors. We exist in a weird, weird world divorced from the natural one surrounding us. As our lifestyles adjust to the new urban environment, with little time to relax and even less space to move in, it is easier to feel uprooted from nature and the wild. In the freedom of the wilderness, there are no rules and limits other than to enjoy and respect nature. This opens countless possibilities in which to link our creativity with the natural world. People desire to be outdoors, to conquer the wilderness, to explore new lands and to test their physical limits. I believe that this desire to be closer to nature is manifesting itself in a new type of tourism. In my project, I refer to this as ‘active tourism’. These tourists want to remove themselves from the urban sprawl that surrounds them, and find their own secluded spaces in the heart of the wilderness, which in the case of my project is Iceland. In order to achieve this I have designed the ‘Scattered Hotel’. Unlike others, this concept hotel gives visitors a comfortable and secure private space that is simultaneously linked in with the wilderness around it, providing compact spaces and aiming to scatter the growing number of tourists.
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REMOTENESS
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My definition of remoteness is associated with feelings and emotion, with our experience of space and our desire to escape our surroundings. Remoteness is a common need, one that played an integral part in out childhood, leading us to build tree houses in the garden or impregnable forts in the living room. As we age, and the world expands around us, we need our own secluded spot, our own hiding space in the middle of city life. A hiding place is a self-made space that gives the impression of privacy and intimacy. Though often narrow and dark, they are inherently cosy and built with a single purpose: to be your own. To me remoteness is a hiding place.
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The concept of hiding or being secluded is now related to travelling, more than at any time before. Tourism has become a mass phenomenon, with annual migrations of millions of people to all four corners of the globe. When travelling it is easy to be anonymous, it is easy to detach yourself from your own life, but you may find it hard to experience remoteness in a crowd of busy tourists. You could travel to the opposite side of the world, and find you have just a little intimacy and privacy. The constant longing for a private space, one with the characteristic of a childhood hiding place, provides the opportunity to reimagine it in a different context.
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TOURISM GROWTH
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Over past few decades, the tourism industry has experienced continued growth to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world.
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The region that posted the highest increase in arrivals is Northern Europe with a 6% increase, and Iceland is the country with the highest relative growth of 20%. The number of tourists in Iceland has tripled just in last two years. This country with great potential, is in the process of creating its unique tourism identity.
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For now, Iceland attracts specific types of tourists, mostly active ones, that are lured in by its wilderness. Most of them are from Great Britain, and US. However, when they arrive, the tourists rarely explore the island, often confined to more established places around the Capital and south coast.
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Iceland is a country in more than 98% wild and rural area. Its natural landscapes are breath-taking, but at the same time dangerous. Nature and weather conditions are unpredictable. That’s why Icelandic rescue teams, in the early half of the last century, constructed ‘rescue huts’ that are scattered all around the island.
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rescue huts locations
The huts vary in shape, colours and structures. They are a representation of vernacular Icelandic architecture, surrounded by an infinite wilderness. They are placed near remote hiking routes, high mountain roads, the coastline, or generally anywhere people are most likely to get themselves into trouble. However, nowadays, when everybody has their own cell phone and GPS in their pocket, the huts lost their importance and are not in use anymore, left over as abandoned structures. Recently the rescue teams have even started to take them down.
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PROGRAM
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By adapting the abandoned huts, I would create a ‘Scattered Hotel’. A chain where each hut is an individual room in the hotel. Each one would be situated within walking distance of each other, making it the perfect place for hiking backpackers. This project, alongside introducing this new concept of a secluded hiding place that is infused with the natural world, also aims to scatter the number of tourists, using the existing spread of huts across the island. This would simultaneously create a dynamic movement of tourism across the island, and also prevent the concentration of tourists in a single location.
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EAST FIORDS ‘SACATTERED HOTEL’ ROUTE
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An exemplary route that one can take, while visiting the ‘Scattered Hotel’ is located in East Fjords, which is not yet a popular destination in Iceland. The route will start in Breiddalsvik, a port village, which one can reach with ease. From here the walking route starts. On the way there are 6 already existing huts. In two cases, huts are too far from each other, (more than 6 hours walking), that’s why I provide two additional huts, designed from scratch. Backpackers will visit one hut each day, walking from one to another. The route ends in Egilsstadir, where the bus can be taken back or the journey can be continued to any other part of island.
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FACILITIES
The huts differ in terms of their structure and materials, but as a part of ‘Scattered Hotel’ they will also differ in facilities. The way they were designed is to keep visitors surprised, so that every hut provides different additional attractions, such as a sauna, a spacious bathtub, a green house with fresh vegetables, a fully equipped kitchen with dried food or a watching tower with telescope to admire the beauty of northern lights.
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In terms of landscape in which huts are located, they are paired, two of them are on the coast, two in the mountains and two in flat, table-land. I chose one hut from every pair to be a part of my designing process. Additionally I designed one hut from scratch, from ‘non existing’ pair.
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I provided a set of rules, which unifies the design throughout the hotel, but also allows architecturally very different huts to be part of the same chain or theme. According to the rule, every hut that already exists is turned into a bedroom; a small, cosy, secluded space, hidden away in the wilderness. Additional structures are made by multiplying the essence of the shape of the old huts, out of translucent materials. This creates an ideal space to fuse the outside world with the bedrooms, removing the boundary between your ‘hiding place’ and nature.
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SERVICE SYSTEM
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The huts are remote structures and are scattered all over the island, due to those conditions, service of each hut would be handled by nearby living locals. On weekly basis they will provide clean towels and linen, wood for stoves and candles (if needed) and dried food.
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TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS
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water distribution and heating systems options
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1 80/80 stainless steal column (if needed to hold second floor platform) insulating triple glazing 2 250 mm concrete slab 100 mm rockwool insulation waterproof membrane 150 mm concrete footing slab 150 mm coarse sand ballast 3 concrete foundation footing
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