ROOM18: the design of a typical hotel room
european design competition / exhibition / publication
by DOMÉS International Review of Architecture
Honorable Mention
team: Andreas Anagnostopoulos, Marios Horsch, Lina Kakaletsi
2016-2017

The Athenian urban sprawl has produced a very dense mat, a fabric made of diverse typologies, forms and materials. This seemingly colourful fabric is supported by a very homogenous bearing system/core, a continuous low-cost, DIY Corbusean Dom-ino. Although the original Dom-ino advocates for an open plan typology, its Greek version, polykatoikia, is adapted to the current financial state, fragmented in apartments, divided in closed rooms.

This project strips the polykatoikia naked, opens up unused floors and offers a habitable open space for travelers and passers-by. A new light floor is adjusted 30cm above the existing concrete slab to host all necessary infrastructural MEP facilities.
The room is narrow to fit through the existing structural grid, therefore long. Its length consists of 5 basic CLT units, one following the other, forming a long corridor equipped with the necessary features of domesticity; entrance, workspace/sit, kitchen, bathroom, bed.

Units’ sequence is quite rational, but there is always room for abstraction. One could be satisfied just with less; a bed and a bathroom or could demand random features like a basket, a minigolf, a hammock, a chessboard.