Hotel Tourism Bus

New Hotels for Global NomadsThe standard bus tour of Western Europe condenses the diverse range of countries into a series of tourist sites suspended within a network of highways and hotels, souvenir shops, and service stops. These itineraries treat the continent the way a subway map describes a city: a space structured as points of interest separated by interludes of memory and anticipation. An analysis of one thirteen-day tour revealed that more time was actually spent on the bus than in cities. Moreover, most hotels were located on the periphery of the cities, making casual excursions into the city difficult.

The Hotel Tourism Bus is a new building type designed to accommodate the logistics of the bus tour and its complex social and visual mechanisms. This speculative prototype plugs into the existing routes of European bus tours. The design and organization of the building is predicated on the fact that everyone in the hotel has come from, or is going to, the same two cities. The building is composed of three zones—a bus parking level, a social lobby level, and a zone of hotel bars—each split equally to formalize the Janus nature of the program: coming and going, memory and anticipation, Venice and Munich.

Year 2017

Work started in 2016

Work finished in 2017

Client Awards

Status Research/Thesis

Type Hotel/Resorts / Tourist Facilities / Bus Stations