Designing A Five Star Hotel With The Approach of
Designing A Five Star Hotel With The Approach of
Designing A Five Star Hotel With The Approach of
Samira Alidadi
M.A student at Islamic Azad University of Bandar Abbas, Bandar Abbas, North Golshahr, Saadat Alley,
Bahman street
[email protected]
ABSTRACT
Hotel is a service complex with the aim of earning revenue and the profit is a formatted phenomenon
history of which is backed to industrial revolution of Europe. Today, tourism is not only belongs to
wealthy families; it also belongs to millions of people who visit new places. Even though new era of
tourism has started and proceeded, many exogenous factors affect it. The importance of proper tourism
resort numbers in Bandar Abbas caused more attention toward designing a five star hotel there. It’s
because Bandar Abbas is one of the most important centers for Central Asia and there are lots of
historical, natural and cultural attraction but there’s not enough resorts there. This study is conducted by
analytical-descriptive method with the pivot of sustainable architecture (green architecture) in a hotel. The
data are collected by a library method. The results show that the sustainable tourism can provide
guidelines for accessing to a stable development in tourism and using the sustainable energy is
emphasized. The concept of sustainable development is an important change in understanding the
relationship between humans, their communications and nature. Therefore, the aim of the present research
is designing a hotel obtaining practical needs beside its aesthetic aspects.
INTRODUCTION
Tourism is considered as one of the most vast and varied industry in the world. Many countries consider it
as the main source of income, employment and growth of the private section and infrastructure
development. Specially, the tourism industry is attracted by developing countries where other economic
developments such as production or natural resource extraction are not economic or they do not have an
important role in commerce and trade domain.
People travel with different and complex reasons. Increasing growth of tourism shortly caused that some
factors which play important role in this area to be taken into consideration. Many people around the
world who never expect the traveling can financially afford it. Building motels and recreation resorts in
different areas turned to be one of the most dominant budgets in big cities. They all are tending to build
motels and resorts around airports and villages. Services delivered by tourism agencies, travel operators,
tourism offices and finally technologies led the travelers have safe and exciting travels.
Totally, the tourism industry has been one of the most important factors in recent decades which linked
different cultures. The result of this linkage has been the cultural communication. Iranian culture with its
thousand year’s history has been the center of science and literature, art and culture. It has also been
attracted by people from far and near countries and it has been the host of many tourists for a long time.
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In recent century, it’s the target of many tourists around the world with different purposes such as
curiosity, gaining knowledge and exploration.
Hereon, Bandar Abbas city is special. It recalls us the cultural gentility by mentioning a brilliant history
and amazing arts. The thousand year’s old history of this city and existence of beautiful historical places
such as the sea, traditional bathrooms, mosques, crafts, various industries and agricultural production
made it to be the destination of many tourists. In the present research, designing a resort complex is one
of the steps that can attract tourists and tourism industry development. Specially, designing this complex
can meet the research economic and cultural goals if it would be conducted in Bandar Abbas based on the
present statistics in tourism industry and potential facilities.
First of all, the idea of dialogue among civilizations should be taken into consideration. Building a
relationship between different cultures and the possibility of meeting other cultures and identifying new
knowledge and western massive developments in all areas are the purpose of this idea. The economic
aspect is the other factor. According to some official suggestions, the tourism industry can create 500,000
job opportunities annually and 7.5 milliard dollar would be the revenue of the country for a single year.
Moreover, 8 job opportunities would be possible by the entrance of a tourist. Bandar Abbas and its
tourism attraction increases the need of creating the resort complexes. Its architecture analysis and can
help designing such places because the key of every success is in human’s understanding, analyzing and
performance. In this study, it’s tried to make Bandar Abbas as a proper place for Iranian and foreigner
tourists by using unique properties of Iranian architecture.
AIM
The present study analyzed the 5 star hotel design by sustainable architecture approach.
METHODOLOGY
Since the subject of the research is designing a 5 star hotel which is built on tourism industry i.e. a domain
in architecture and city building on social and human science, it’s somehow complex. It means, we used
some methods that can complete each other. We also used library research which is conducted on
investing the tourism industry and the hotel design criteria. Moreover, the field study is also conducted
such as the related photographs. It’s also tried to find the existing samples around the world by looking up
in the internet. Based on the information, the library and field studies, some criteria are determined for
design and led to the final plan.
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Bandar Abbas is the center of Hormozgan province in south of Iran. It has 27316 Km width (Iran’s
statistics center, 2006). It’s in north of Hormoz neck, in 27 degree and 11 minutes of northern width and
in 56 degree and 17 minutes of the eastern out of Greenwich’s half a day. It has a variable weather. In the
mountain area, it’s hot and dry and in the plain areas, it’s hot and humid. In the shore area, the weather is
very hot and humid in summer and it’s temperate in winter. Summer continues 9 months in that place and
little by little the hot weather decreases by October. The northern winds are along with dust and an
intense humidity which causes a very hot and humid weather which is called “muggy” (Mirkazemian et
al, 2007).
The weather in Bandar Abbas city (southern beach) includes a high humid weather, high temperature, sea
breeze to the dry area and the local winds. (figure 1)
Figure 1. The location of Bandar Abbas city in Hormozgan province and Iran
One of the properties of hotels specially the big ones is their self-sufficiency. Today, people have more
financial facilities than before but they have less time for relaxation leisure. Therefore, hotels should
deliver the maximum services as fast as possible. Moreover, the aesthetic aspect of hotels are also
important.
HOTEL GRADES
The increase of environmental damages and growth of market’s demand for green hotels created a new
touchstone for grading the hotels. As a result, the first comprehensive guidelines of the world green hotels
has entered to the tourist market. Today, there are lots of different hotels around the world which cannot
be categorized simply. The hotel grading is based on the beauty and quality of service they offer which
increases the rent of rooms. Big rooms with fabulous buildings decorations and expensive sofas reveal the
high investment, depreciation, tax and bills. These high costs are compensated by increasing the room
prices. Hotels are divided in three main groups in terms of the whole quality:
a. The economic hotels with simple rooms and services for travelers with a limited budget.
b. The trade hotels with high standards and services such as fast internet, laundry service, delivering
newspaper in rooms, refrigerator, safe deposit, restaurant and transportation to airport.
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c. The luxury hotels with special architecture and decorations, great restaurants, all room services,
pool, massage, spa and etc.
The hotel industry is very variable and complex. It’s varied from the luxury hotels to motels with limited
services.
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different overlaps and same points. Wood has been the main source of energy before the spread of fossil
fuel. It still supplies today’s 15% energy. When wood became rare, it was obvious for many people to use
solar energy. Cities in Greece like Pyrenees changed their location in a way that avoid flood and they
built a rectangular shaped network with eastern-western streets which led them use the sunlight. The
Romans also followed the solar design by using the Greece experiences. However, they used crystal
windows (which was the innovation after the f 1st century) for increasing warmth. The lack of wood as a
fuel made the front view of the rich people’s house and bathhouses to be built southward. The tradition
of design based on the climate is not limited to warmth rules. Architects had to design a cool climate in
buildings for a favorable situation. The usual solution of recent era, i.e. using the ventilation systems is
not favorable in relation to the climate. It consumes a lot of energy and it’s an incorrect way even when
energy is cheap and abundant (America’s green building council).
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resource is forfeited. Many buildings used this energy and the result led to satisfaction in creating big
buildings (count Lebs, 2002).
HOLISTIC PRINCIPLE
All green principles requires cooperation in a holistic procedure in order to create the artificial
environment. Finding buildings that have all green architectural principles is not simple because the green
architecture is not identified completely. A green architecture should include more than a single building
i.e. it should include a sustainable form of an urban environment. City is far from sets of buildings. In
fact, it can be seen as a set of interacting system (systems for life and recreation) which have a body and
by a precise looking to these systems, we can draw tomorrow’s future of the city (Count Lebz, 2002).
GREEN HOTELS
Green hotel refers to single or chain hotels that have more adaptability toward environment and their
activities have rare negative impacts on environment.
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• Supervision and management for the plan
implementation and resolving the weak points
• Wastes management (decreasing garbage,
recycle)
• Green environment
• Energy management
• Productivity increase
CONCLUSIONS
A comparative example has been analyzed in the present research and all sustainable dimensions were
perceived in it. However, there’s no necessity for all disciplines of sustainable development in landscape.
A whole definition for sustainable landscape can be suggested: “a significant relationship between the
environment and the addressee that can have unclear future.”
If this balance is needed for each of these sustainable dimensions, we have to observe them. It’s possible
that one of these factors is more important than the others. For example, the landscape is mainly depends
to social factors but we cannot ignore the role of other dimensions because the sustainable development
cannot be analyzed from one dimensions and other factors cannot be insignificant.
Green buildings are those have little negative impacts on environment. Architects should try to use
people’s taste in designing the green buildings.
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