Bsc6 Design

Bsc6 Design

Bachelor semester 6, second quarter (complete design assignment).
Design a hotel for 3 to N guests in Rotterdam somewhere along the Middellandstraat. Add at least one urban function to the design.

I choose to create a hotel in which every room is linked to a famous Dutch painter. Rather than creating disney-landish rip-offs of the artists work, it seemed altogether more plausible and durable to look at the underlying properties of the artists work in question.
The resulting presentation for this course was nothing more (or nothing less for that matter) than a 12 minute video. A reduced (scaled down and poor quality) version of this file is available from this page. Note that you need the DivX 5.x codec to view it, which you can download for free from divx.com.
I've also provided a set of stills from this animation for direct viewing.

Stills (in no particular order):

Cutaway view of the 'Karel Appel' room.	Cutaway view of the 'Bosch' room.	Cutaway view of the 'Breughel' room.
Cutaway view of the 'Rembrandt' view.	Rendering of the design in-situ.	Another in-situ rendering from a different angle.
Image of the bamboo-garden.	Birds-eye view of the hotel in the city.	Front facade at night.
The inner-garden as seen reflected in a mirror ball.	Rendering of the hotel along the street.	The shape of the central 'staircase'.

You can download the animation at half the original resolution (300 × 200 pixels) and only 50 megabytes in size, but otherwise identical. Note that the video was originally in Dutch and has been translated on rather short notice and -more importantly- in the absence of a dictionary):

50 MB

A small essay on the design can be downloaded here in pdf format. WARNING! It's Dutch and it's boring.

1 MB

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