2001 hotel for the germphobic

germ - phobic, nycfall 2001 final thesis

school of architecturenew jersey institute of technology

ken r. koense advisor: peter pelsinski

hotel for the

hotel for the germ - phobic nyc 2001 final thesis

ken r. koense peter pelsinski

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090601Studio 564 - Comprehensive StudioPeter PelsinskiHotel For New York City - West 4th Street [Meat Packing District]

Victims of the Titanic were brought to piers across from site and transported to aboarding house across the street from site

Hypothetical Occupant: Smallpox / Anthrax Victims

Site:Piers - Residues of old piersMeat Packing PlantsSmall scale residential apartments - brownstonesElevated railway - residue [high-line]ParkWest side highwayParking [elevating platforms]

Smallpox - Anthrax - Biological Attack [Military]Dead - Living [or survivors]

Pompidou Centre - Paris[Piano and Rogers]

West Nile Outbreak 2000 - 2001 NYC

090701Infectious diseasesExternal Mechanical SystemsExternal Electrical SystemsExternal Waste Management SystemsExternal Biohazardous Materials

NASA - Rocket & Shuttle Launches[mechanical and electrical systems]

Derricks for rockets and shuttle

Absurdity of this site handling this kind of outbreakPolitical implications

Disaster of 21st CenturyApocalypticGovernment run - Defense Run ProjectAbsurdity of bomb shelters in 1950�s and 1960�sU.S. government�s flacid, tepid response to a serious and catastrophic realityImages of Anthrax Attack

Manhattan Engineering District - Founded October 6, 1941Atomic Bomb: 20th Century NightmareBioterrorism: 21st Century NightmareTitanic - Greatest travel disaster in history. Large lossof life, victims and survivorsbrought to White Star Luxury Piers on Hudson River

GAS MASKSMILITARYTERRORISM

Military and Government�s iineptitude to foresee and protect it��s citizenry from disaster -Budgetary | Political | InformationBomb shelters of 50�s and 60�s show the society�s and government�s lack of understanding of threat

Hospital, like Bomb Shelters can remain empty. A monument to our stupidityAnthrax - naturally occuring disease in cattle, developed into weapon of mass destruction

090801Hotels / Resorts - especially in Hollywood have become more and more like clinics, sanitoriums, hospitals; treatingassorted �illnesses� and adictions

missle silos being re-used for homes - military bases being re-used for public amenities

091001Broader health issuesHealth oriented occupantOCD - Research [numbers 5,000,000]Sanitized, clean obsessive compulsiveabout cultural ideas of look, cleanlinessantiseptic / germphobicMorphing of Hotel, Hostel, HospitalHermetically sealed spaces - Clean Rooms

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091201Bacteriaphobic individualsA hotel w/hospital programmatic features or aspects�Where the mentally ill go for vacations�

091701[inside out of Pompidou, sterilization of program]built-in redundancy of clean rooms, and related types. How it relates to the redundancy of OCD patientscleaning everything time and time again.

Broader sense of health and vigor

� The Pompidou is the ultimate expression, even caricature, of the modernist ideal of the building as machine and themore recent notion of building as kit of parts. It also exemplifies the idea of indeterminancy, the building as an ongoingprocess, never quite complete and final in form.��Ideas of function and flexibility�

091901Painted and stainless steel covers allude to the desire of sanitizing space

092701-average treatment length for ocd-container length of stay on site-shipping containers-sterile environments

092901hotels and hospitals are temporary spaces for occupantswhat if spaces are temporary and occupants are permanent?

BACTERIA ANDGERMPHOBICHEALTH AND TRAVELRELATION?



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Ritual?When are containers removed? For service? How often?Are the occupants part of the ritual?OCD is a ritualized process

ContainerContainContainedContainmentConfinementConfineConfined

100201organization itself is a method of cleansing or ordering in systemssecurity | comfort in the organization of things - people go to hotelsto escape home | domesticity

100301the more redundancy, the more convoluted transportation systemsefficiency less contamination - organized

100801container becomes a wall and/or mobile clean roomorganization of clean soiled systems

100901designed objects trigger spatial conundrums. gauze - and other sterilizedobjects - as bedding - disposable one use onlydisposable culture, antibacterial cultureanti - physical connection virtual reality driven

101001what and how are the hotel room walls constructed?[interior prophylactic]through the materials and objects in the rooms a subversive quality canemerge, that will undermine the hotel as typeinnocuous but subversive, familiar yet unfamiliar

hotel room as safe where the staff never enters room, but are able tomaintain the space from the outside

racing - peeling windshieldspaper|plastic|tyvek

systems that are constantly redundant

101401tanning beds as a device for cleaning

101501uv - lighting in walls forautoclave

cleaninginsulationheatinglighting

101601furniture - mounted or part of surfaces [ wall or floor]

101701high density foam - hypo-allergenic

102201vending machinesno windows - live videolive video feed of nyc into roomslive surveillance video throughout hotellive room feed throughout hotelcameras placed throughout bath room for cleaning body

shower | toilet room -

video panels insleeping areas

sanitized pass thru - access to contents by staff or occupant

Materiality:foamlaminatesstainless steeluv lightingair | wet showersvideo

when lamintes run out that is when room is maintainedtyvek sheets and robe [single use]

112001ethyl tetrafluorethylene [etfe]transparent polymer foil[nicholas grimshaw - eden project, cornwall, england]

120301Control and the failure or inability to control. The success of thisproject can only happen, when the system fails. Nothing canremain hermetically sealed, there will always be some infiltration,and when that happens - bacteria will create it�s own structure,it�s own form, and it�s own rules

w / plenum supplywet / dry showers onwalls w / plenum drain



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