Design for Communist Hotels

6.6 An Analytical Approach of the Analysis of the Architecture and Components of Design for Communist Hotels.

In this session, three hotels have been subject of analyzation in: ✓ Geometrical Configuration ✓ Structural Matrix, Circulation ✓ Distribution, Space Usage and Function with focus in served and serving spaces.

In the context of Similarities and variables in the typology assessment for hotels as criteria for future design, after analyzing the three projects, it can be emphasized that the architectural line used by Albanian architects during the communist era is a pure and rational line. In the three cases there is a peculiar one, but to be evidenced remains the project of Mitrojorgji, who uses a different line of language in plan. The served spaces (where people consume most of their time) and those services (mostly transited areas) are all intertwined and they very between projects. At the Tirana Hotel, they are collected in the central corridor, at “Hotel Turizmi, appear to be diagonally cut, while in the case of Hotel in Mjeda are distributed according to the total forms of facility.

Hotel Turism in Pogradec (1973) is visualized with the central part of the plan as the actual core and main trunk around which the other spaces are assembled and configured. Plan delivery forms are clear quadratic, with 1:1 or 1:2 ratios, in appearance, unlike the other two projects where the octagonal format prevails. At the Hotel Turizmi in Pogradec, the architect M. Mitrojorgji has dared to use a fluid –curved element in façade to generate a different image in the exterior of the bulding.

Tirana Hotel (1973): Valentina Pistoli’s architecture at Tirana Hotel is a classical approach, where the ratio between the height of the building belonging to the trunk of the rooms and the size of the “Plats” service, tends to be preserved. From the point of view to the layout plan, is unveiled as a three rectangular – sized approaching the cut.

Figure 68: Figure 68: Analytical Diagrams for 3 Communist Hotels. Source: Author

Figure 69: Analytical Diagrams for 3 Communist Hotels. Source: Author