2009/10 Edition “Welcome in Hotel”

AIPi has among its institutional tasks all those activities intended to emphasize, identify and better define
the role of the Interior Designer.

Thanks to this competition, AIPi intends to focus on the cultural, technical and creative aspects of the Interior Designer's activity: a professional Interior Designer must be - in fact - capable to identify and solve
in a creative way all those problems arising from the evaluation and project of interior areas.

An Interior Designer will provide project scheduling, space analysis, interior designing in its strict sense,
aesthetical analysis, work in progress controls and supervision. Its instruments will include his know-how
about technical aspects of implementation, building materials,, building best practices, legal aspects, tools,
materials and furniture - in a broader sense.

An Interior Designer prepares all documents and drawings in order to best define and solve all project
aspects. Among his goals, all improvements in quality of life will be at a premium, including health issues,
safety, security and general welfare of users.

(These themes have been expressed in an international document, issued by I.F.I General Assembly in
Hamburg, (May 1983) and has been fully reconfirmed by ECIA Assembly in 1992. AIPi is among the
founders of ECIA).

The theme of 2009-10 Competition
The competition subject is “Welcome in hotel”: it deals with the interior designing of a portion of an
existing building, which is at present abandoned. This building will become a hotel: the competition deals with the transformation of ground level / entrance.

Main points

• Lobby, reception, customers'' entrance
• Lounge, living, reading & relax areas
• Bar
• Reception's back office areas: offices / staff rooms
• Breakfast area
• Meeting room
• Entrance to hotel rooms and / or lifts area
• External area in front of entrance/reception
• Complementary and optional elements
• Leisure area
• TV room
• Retail areas

The competition subject has been chosen thinking of the present best innovations in the general hospitality
approach.

This new approach does not consider a hotel simply as a stop-sleep and-go environment, but wants to
emphasize all those aspects of friendly and warm customer care. All aspects dealing with a sensorial perception capable of moving an emotional response must be taken care of.

We suggest all partecipants to focus especially - as stated before - on the Lobby and Lounge environments.
The Interior Designer must introduce his set of special values using his creativity, new techniques, new
materials - preferring biocompatible ones - so that all ares and spaces can be fully exploited by all categories
of clients, not forgetting handicapped ones.

This building has been chosen because of the several opportunities it offers for esperimentation. It is a part of
a larger project involving Europe and the rest of the world, aiming to carry on decontestualization.

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