Rehabilitation and programmatic reconversion of an abandoned hotel in Athens.

How can the hotel, this temporary accommodation, this perpetually changing building, be built to anticipate societal, economic and cultural changes, evolve?

The hotel must reinvent itself to respond to new lifestyles and new temporalities. The studio aims to reflect on this form of living, this hosting place. Thinking of the hotel as an infrastructure both in its metropolitan and collective dimension. Alongside the analyses of iconographic spaces that relate to living together, the students address the future of the Acropol Hotel in Athens, designed by architect Emmanouil Vourekas in 1963, and abandoned for more than ten years.

Each student comes up with a new programme for the entire building and explores a world of his or her choice: innovation, climate, space, function, technique, ornamentation. For the second part of the studio the students address the potential of a space in this urban infrastructure in relation to the programmatic orientations set beforehand.