Infiltrating Montreal through the apartment-hotel: the anticipated mystery and strange familiarity of inhabiting the visited city
A city’s built fabric is inscribed with a silent framework that at times, is imperceptible to those who permanently reside within its bounds, even though it is they, the permanent residents, who give rise to this framework, by inhabiting the city over time. In contrast, the visitor to o city is keenly aware of o city’s latent framework. The morphology of the ‘visited city’ is of heightened clarity. The oportment-hotel, in turn, is o privileged urban figure os it is o hinge point between the visitor and the city. Through on architecture that celebrates the sequencing and ritual of everyday life, the oportment-hotel speaks of the tension between the transient nature of accommodation architecture and the permanence of urban domestic life. Its programmatic elements reveal to visitors the unknown domestic spaces of the visited city for the duration of their stay. This thesis examines the oportment-hotel os o didactic architectural device in the specific context of Montreal, o city possessing o strong urban logic that infiltrates architectural form and experience.
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