Boutique Hotel Suite
Unbuilt concept study
A 42-square-metre key-room prototype for a boutique property, testing how much a guest room can be opened up before it stops feeling private.
Plan diagram
How the space is organised
- Key-room module
- 10.0 × 4.2m internally — 42.0m², the area the brief states, drawn to the scale bar on the plan.
- Joinery spine
- 700mm deep and 4.8m long: 1.8m of wardrobe, 1.2m of minibar, 1.8m of headboard, with the bathroom's wet wall on its far face. It stops 2.2m short of the glass.
- Bedroom
- An 1800 × 2000mm king on the window side of the spine, head against it, with 1.8m of clear floor between the bed and the glazing and the 3.0m entry lobby open on the other side.
- Bathroom
- 3.0 × 1.5m behind the spine, away from the glass. WC, basin and shower all stand on the wet wall with a 0.6m clear strip in front, and a fluted-glass screen lets it borrow the daylight crossing the room.
Spatial strategy
A single freestanding joinery spine carries wardrobe, minibar, and the bathroom's wet wall. Because it stops short of both the ceiling and the window wall, daylight crosses the full depth of the room and the plan reads as one volume rather than a corridor to a bed.
Lighting strategy
Four independent circuits — a low wash for arrival, a reading pair at the bedhead, a mirror circuit at 4000K for the vanity, and a floor-level night path to the bathroom that never wakes a sleeping partner.
The question
Guests judge a room in the first ten seconds, largely on whether it feels generous. Square metres are fixed by the building; perceived volume is not.
The proposition
Holding the joinery spine clear of the ceiling and the window wall keeps sight lines running the full depth of the plan. The room measures the same and reads larger, and the bathroom borrows daylight it would otherwise never receive.