Room18 is an entire exhibition dedicated to the design of urban hotel rooms in Greece and opens its doors at the Benaki Museum‘s Pireos Street Annexe on Friday, November 18.
The exhibit features three life-size room designs that won awards from the Pan European Design Competition.
“This exhibition is not of a utopian nature. It aims at real results, to influence the thinking of all those involved in tourism, architects, hoteliers and others, and perhaps stimulate the minds of potential residents, so that they seek out not just the experience of the hotel but also of the room that they will occupy,” said architecture professor Dr. Georgios Panetsos during a press conference held at the Benaki Museum on Thursday.
This is the first time that an attempt to actually implement the results of an architectural competition in Greece into an exhibit has been made. Dr. Georgios Panetsos proudly added that the entries in the competition had exceeded expectations, both in terms of their number and their quality.
Room 18 – The Design of a Typical Hotel Room is being presented by the International Architecture Review DOMES, and will feature various concepts in hotel-room design from a park-like room inspired by the Champs Elysee, to a “room-corridor” where the height of all the furniture can be adjusted and changed.
It will be held in a space of 500 square meters with life-size reconstructions of the award-winning room designs of Leonidas Papalampropoulos from Greece who won 1st Prize, João Prates Ruivo from Portugal who took 2nd Prize and Sara Navazo Saez De Arregui & Edorta Larizgoitia Andueza from Spain who won 3rd Prize.
Visitors will have the opportunity to wander through the rooms and experience a space that, according to the organizers, “defies the conventional boundaries, focusing on the concept of residence, as a separate structure that creates new feelings and perceptions.”
The exhibition will also present 262 designs which were submitted for Competition Room18, in the form of A1 signs.
The exhibition aims to present ideas that “revise the existing principles in the architecture of hospitality and focus on personalization and on the needs of the modern traveler.”
The hotel room designs are all based on the specifications set by the tourism ministry for a four-star hotel and the exhibition will run through December 4 at the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street Annexe.
Source: ANA-MPA
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