Ananya Rupesh Deshmukh

AR2066

Architecture provides a stage set for events and possibilities to unfold. Like in a carefully constructed stage set, these possibilities come through through a narrative of almost fractal detail tying the architectural forms together. It is both an implosion and explosion of tailoring, to say in Gropius’s words: “a coherent restatement of the theme by repetition of its integral properties in all parts of the whole.” This implosive and explosive nature of total design is sought by the design through its program- a hotel that is entirely a commodity. The design thus seeks to commercialise the hotel typology on all scales, conferring to this interpretation of total design through its total sellability; encompassing both users and the product, the versatility of choice threaded into the design through open and editable floor plans, creating radically different spaces through movable space dividers instead of walls and movable pockets of floors, creating double heights when necessary.