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Lens Hotel​

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The site sits in the campus area of Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. The premise of this project is to design a budget hotel that has about 20 units with multi-functional programs in it that incorporates the campus life and the urban culture. 

 

The project focuses on turning architecture into an apparatus to stage the behavior of the occupants and the onlookers. The conversation about privacy and publicity between the architecture and people is pervasive in the territory. The notions of them are mediated or even convoluted through the design from different angles. Windows, courtyards, and corridors becomes important thresholds and medium to stage the play going on in the architecture.

 

The Lens zooms in and zooms out and situates the discrepancy or conflicts between the appearance of things and how we think of them; what we want to do and how we interact; what we expect and what we see. 

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