PROTOTYPE HOTEL ROOM
Fremont Hotel
San Francisco

Design: 2001
In collaboration with L.E.FT
Commissioned by Interiors Magazine

A speculative design for a fictional boutique hotel, the project takes as its premise the preponderance of time spent in hotel bathrooms (according to some studies, the location in which guests spend the vast majority of their waking hours). If hotel time is divided between bedroom and bathroom, what if the room were divided into the largest possible bed and the largest possible bath by splitting the room in half? Half the room becomes a continuous tiled surface which when filled with water serves as a large bathing pool, while the other half is rendered as a continuous "bed" surface of resilient foam for repose or sleeping. This initial distinction sets up a series of secondary oppositions - hard/soft, wet/dry, hygiene/relaxation.