Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Visit Scotland Hotel Project




Our first major Interior project in 3rd year was set by Visit Scotland, the tourism board for Scotland. Our brief is to redesign a hotel, either in a rural or urban location, in a way which conveys Scottish heritage & culture. We are to interpret our ideas into the Interior of the hotel.
There are two possible sites for the hotels:
the urban site - currently the EuroHostel at the Clydeside
the rural site - the Loch Fyne Hotel & Spa in Inverary

Both hotels are currently 3star. We were each given the task of designing either a 3 star or 5 star hotel.
I got 3 star rural!

Concept
As i had the rural hotel I considered the fact that guests would spend alot of their stay exploring
the outdoors. The hotel faces the Loch and has countryside surrounding it. The small village of Inverary has one main street with gift shops. There are 2 other hotels/guest houses in Inverary. The Loch Fyne Hotel is the only one with a spa.
So, considering that guests would spend most of their day walking/driving/exploring, I imagined they would like a place to rest their feet and relax in some cozy surroundings. The idea of "home" came from this. It is said that Scots are incredibly hospitable so I wanted to create a space in which everyone felt at home. Somewhere they could relax and feel comfortable in their surroundings, unlike some hotel experiences where there seems to be a behavioural etiquette.
I also wanted to use traditional Scottish materials, but use them in new ways - to modernise it and show that Scotland is a fashionable and design conscious place.

inspiration














This image reminded me of the idea of home - it's cozy, it's lived in, it's a collection of different 'stuff'.









Again, this image shows how a persons collection of random objects are put together to give a home identity. Each piece isn't planned, but it fits the purpose for the space.


















I collected alot of images of homes with photographs. These give a space personal identity and, again, remind you of home. In my hotel these frames could hold photos of the area - letting the residents see snapshots of the area history.


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