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Eighteen hotels, and the plan each of them follows.
A reader on building plans, and the traditions they were borrowed from.
This site describes one thing about each house: its plan. Not how a stay feels, and not what a building is worth looking at, but where the corridors run, what the rooms open onto, and which older arrangement decided it. Every entry answers the same four questions in the same order, so the eighteen can be read against one another rather than one at a time.
Part I · Art Hotels
Old plans holding new uses: a cloister, a banking hall, a garden axis and a row of courtyards, each still deciding where a guest walks and what they see on the way.
Part II · Casino Hotels
Four Canadian resorts read only as plans: pavilions joined by links, a complex built into a hillside, a line of buildings along a channel, and a low set of wings on open ground.
Part III · Capsule Hotels
Four hotels planned around one repeated unit. The cabin decides the corridor, and the corridor decides the floor, so the argument is about where everything else goes.
Part IV · Ice Hotels
Four snow buildings, rebuilt each winter. Because only the arch stands, the plans are vaults and linked domes, with everything requiring warmth placed in separate structures nearby.
The rule this reader follows, and what it leaves out, is set down in How We Read A Plan.