Hotel Cremorne

Since their extensive emergence in the late 18th century, at the time of the 'Grand Tour', hotels have been subject to many fantasies and projections, as rich literature and film history demonstrates.

After a phase of exclusiveness, the type of the hotel reinvented itself and diversified, to cover the changing needs of a progressively varied clientele.

Nowadays hotels differ strongly, depending on their location, the kind of tourism they attract and the expectations of their guests.  The relation between private rooms and public areas, but also between the latter and exterior surroundings, offer potential for rich spatial experiences.

The hotel, as a special form of collective housing, combines individual and common spaces, exposed and hidden places, in a varied spatial network.  It is a place of exchange, but also of retreat, a place of recreation but also of representation, combing thus in a first reading very contradictory qualities and demands.

It is a strongly anchored in place, since visitors chose it as a destination.  At the same time it has to respond to needs of visitors from all around the globe.  The conciliation of such complex and conflicting request demands sensibility in design and a subtle orchestration of publicness and privacy.

Yi-Xuan Lee, Exterior 1

The task was to design a hotel of the 21st century based on a target group. My target group was 'Family'. Everything about this project from it's interior design, its programs and even its very form was designed with deep consideration to the concept of 'Family'.

Yi-Xuan Lee, Exterior 2

Yi-Xuan Lee, Lobby collage

Yi-Xuan Lee, Level 3 floor plan

Yi-Xuan Lee, Terrance collage

Nicholas Ots, Combined Exterior Collages

In the studio, Hotel Cremorne, we were challenged to tackle the existing hotel typologies, creating something which had a better integration and sense of location through a public program in addition to the traditional hotel rooms. This project is for a business hotel in which creative practitioners, such as artists, designers, photographers and sculptors, have space to collaboratively work, sleep, showcase and finally sell their projects. These programs are facilitated by a new public exterior garden 'street', where transition allows movement through galleries, shops and cafes, not only adding a public attraction in the suburb of Cremorne, but also a business for travelling creative practitioners which can help fund collaborative projects across different parts of the world

Nicholas Ots, Combined Interior Collages

Nicholas Ots, Plans

Nicholas Ots, Section

Nicholas Ots, User Scenarios Diagram