Hotel building

Author: McDonald
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book serves as a comprehensive resource for architects to quickly initiate the design process, providing essential information for starting design projects effectively. In this book, chief architects from four major hotel design companies share their knowledge and experience on key aspects of luxury hotels, resort/ themed hotels, conference/ event hotels, and limited-service hotels (motels) from a broad perspective. They emphasize the increasing demand for online connectivity, rich video, data, and telephone systems; the internationalization of hotel design; the growing need for flexible layouts; the acceptance of new functions for buildings repurposed as hotels; renovation guidelines; safety considerations, and more. The book offers critical information, potential issues, special design considerations, and new trends in the hotel design process, while comprehensively covering energy issues, mechanical systems, structural factors, lighting, indoor circulation, ADA safety concerns, and other aspects. It is an indispensable guide for hotel architectural design.
The book addresses 20 key questions typically raised in the early stages of a design project, along with their answers; provides engineering images, charts, plans, sections, and details; and includes design guidelines for luxury hotels, resort/ themed hotels, conference/ event hotels, and limited-service hotels. For busy, focused professionals who want to quickly get started on a new project, this well-organized and convenient reference book is invaluable. Like the other books in this series, it offers authoritative and up-to-date information, saving significant research time. Mechanical consultants will also find a wealth of helpful information in this book to address various hotel design challenges.