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Student Symposium 2021

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Localizing

The Aurora Hotel is located in San Antonio, Texas. The specific location is approximately twenty minutes east of the downtown area in a more secluded and private area. This gives the hotel the opportunity to play up the characteristic of intimacy in its location while still being local to many essential places and popular tourist spots.

Schematic Design

Designing the hotel interior began with determing the essentail spaces to be included on the first floor and their desired adjacencies. Knowing that theaters have a focal point in their design (the stage), I wanted to emphasize a particular space as the focal point to the hotel. The decided focal point of the hotel is the hotel bar. Based on hotel research, several boutique hotels are memorable in the guests eyes for having a statement bar area that can serve as a destination for convenient, personal cocktail hours and a perfect date night-in.