In our days trying to analyze or design a hotel, has become a challenge. For the nature of the function, it presents difficulties in analyzing the trends and new ideas of hotel designing is a direct-oriented product of the nature of tourism business travel industry. Today, the expectations for comfort, qualitative services, and particularity, are incorporated within the homogenized international travel, so the hotel design is often endorsed as “international design”
Session C: The Typology Discourse
2.6 The concept of typology in architecture This session will provide a wider discourse regarding the typology in architecture, trying to relate it to basic cellules of requirements for the design of new hotels while searching for variables to enrich this process. Typology can be understood as “the identification of essential types of building or element — can seem primarily an enterprise of systematization and ordering” (Jones, 2017). Its basic role as a guiding principle can be considered as generic frame of reference for interpretation, while the contemporary design seems to avoid the heuristic demeanor. Durand understands the typology, […] not a catalog of immediately applicable solutions but a system of classifications that makes it possible to familiarize oneself with the various problems that may turn up in practice but without any thought of covering them systematically” (Durand, 2000, p. 45) Quatremére de Quincy sustains his definition of the architectural “type” in the representation of the type, not exactly as the image or aspect to be copied, but as the 43
