Guesthouse:Shunpiker Guest House Design

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exploring ideas

Todd van Hulzen has been exploring architectural designs for the Shunpiker Guest House. Todd says:

I think we will have to look at lots of intesting alternatives to making a hotel than the standard 1st world idea of a room with a tub and a toilet and a shower. And there's more and more interest in the public spaces, such as the garden, classrooms, a restaurant, and artiginal shops connected to the guesthouse. My biggest concern is water, and making sure that we will have a sustainable water source of our own far into the future.
What I would like to know is what would people rather have in their guestroom if they had to choose: a toilet to pee in late at night, or a shower/tub. I think I'd like to concentrate the "unclean" activities at one end of the building. But I'd like to come up with a nice custom washing system, half shower, half tub. Maybe a luxury version of the Ewer and Basin technique, where you sit on your own little marble ghat and and pour water and rose petals over yourself from a bronze ewer. Of course someone would have to clean the rose petals out of the drain, but it's just a question of where you invest your resourses: is it in western plumbing with it's prodigiously wasteful use of water and space, or is it in human-power? The money you save on fixtures, piping and water bills you can spend on a grateful employee who measures drops of orangeblosssom and bergamot into ewers and gracefully conveys it from the cistern to the rooms every morning. What makes one feel most like a king (to use a rather feudal allusion)? A shower tap or gorgeous materials and human attention?

Tim says:

We will probably only be able to afford a plot of land 50ft x 100ft (15x30M) which is 2 grounds. Some drawings are based on plots larger than that. Once we have a property we can really begin in earnest.

Todd writes:

What I figure is this: for the rooms themselves we need to buy at least ONE Ground, that's 15M x 15M, or 49 x 49 feet. In a two storey building we can fit about 16 rooms for guests, some small (10' x 12') and some larger.(12' x 20'). In total this would accomodate about 30 guests, if full. However, this does not include room for any services or restaurant or residency or garden. We could consider adding a floor, making it 3 storeys. In any case, in a hot climate you either have to keep plenty of space open for ventilation and overhanging eves or make your walls a meter thick. I don't believe there will be any air-co in this hotel, though you might consider it for the public space or in case of emergencies.
On TWO grounds, however, we can set down this aforementioned guest house and attach it to a small courtyard and a building for services, such as a bathhouse, a kitchen, a residency. I assume that the person (Tim) who runs the place is going to need one's own apartment. Still it would not be enough for a proper garden.
My idea of the ideal plot goes something like this: One ground not too close to town but still connected to city utilities such as electro and water, if it exists. Perhaps it has its own well. This will cost more than plots that have nothing. I would hope then that next to our well connected plot there would be a buildable ground (again: 15 x 15M) without utilities onto which we could expand easily. That would make two grounds, ond costing less that the other. Then I would hope that this all be available directly on the beach. This expands your sense of space, is free public domain, and generally good for business. Otherwise, I can imagine that if we are lucky, there be a THIRD ground available that the locals consider unbuildable, but which we could take up as a garden space, even if there is a gully, a cliff or a swamp running through it. (If it's a swamp I'll just call some Dutch friends to come and drain it and put cows on it.)
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More Visuals

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http://shunpiker.org/wiki/media/thumb/9/92/07-entry.jpg/120px-07-entry.jpg http://shunpiker.org/wiki/media/thumb/5/5f/Sketch_guestblock.jpg/120px-Sketch_guestblock.jpg http://shunpiker.org/wiki/media/thumb/1/12/09-south-cut.jpg/120px-09-south-cut.jpg http://shunpiker.org/wiki/media/thumb/c/cd/09-film-screencapture.jpg/120px-09-film-screencapture.jpg http://shunpiker.org/wiki/media/thumb/f/fb/Concept_entrance.jpg/120px-Concept_entrance.jpg

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