Flesh of Form: Reimagining a Boutique Hotel as a Mortal Interior

aut.embargoNoen_NZ
aut.thirdpc.containsYesen_NZ
aut.thirdpc.permissionNoen_NZ
dc.contributor.advisorCarley, Rachel
dc.contributor.advisorDouglas, Carl
dc.contributor.authorBudden, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T22:11:33Z
dc.date.available2022-12-08T22:11:33Z
dc.date.copyright2022
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2022-12-08T19:45:37Z
dc.description.abstractBetween the routine of everyday life and the dislocation of travel, the hotel space sits on a threshold “out-of-time” or “out-of-place.” It is not uncommon for hotel interiors to be stripped out and replaced every decade to keep up with their competition. While recognising current efforts towards sustainability in the hotel industry, I suggest a more profound transformation might come from an imaginative engagement that embodies experiences of time. This creative practice research project investigates the mortality, or the temporary nature, of our built environments and interior surfaces to understand how designing within a historical fabric grounds the spatial experience of time and place. By rethinking the temporal narratives of the hotel interior, we could reduce the need for them to be rebuilt so frequently and instead create a meaningful experience for hotel visitors. The term mortal interior has come to define a practice-led methodology that likens the material temporality of the hotel interior to that of our own bodies. Conceptual methods of revealing the historical fabric of the host building, dressing an interior skin and wearing a material flesh are employed to challenge how a boutique hotel interior can respond to the historic fabric of an existing building and contextualise the ephemeral hotel space. As a case study in the mortal interior, this research proposes the conversion of “The Windsor Castle,” a currently vacant heritage building dating from the 1850s in Parnell, Auckland, for a new boutique hotel.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/15741
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherAuckland University of Technology
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.subjectInterior design; Hotel, mortality; Mortal interior; Temporality; Material fleshen_NZ
dc.titleFlesh of Form: Reimagining a Boutique Hotel as a Mortal Interioren_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorAuckland University of Technology
thesis.degree.levelMasters Theses
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Designen_NZ
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