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6th Sem Facility Planning Notes

Design Consideration: Hotel Design

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Last updated: 22 July 2023

Hotel design involves the planning, drafting, design and development of hotels. The concept of hotel design is rooted in traditions of hospitality to travellers dating back to ancient times, and the development of many diverse types of hotels has occurred in many cultures. For example, the advent of rail travel in the early 1900s led to the planning, design and development of hotels near railroad stations that catered to rail travellers.

Seven major design consideration while designing any Hotel:-

1. Attractive appearance:

All over the appearance of a Hotel is one of the very important considerations for a Hotel. It should be attractive and should reflect the architecture of that area and should also have a character of the services being provided in that Hotel.

2. Efficient Plan:

The plan of the Hotel should be such that it should be functional and also appeal to the eye. All the services should be so designed that it meets various principles of layout and design.

3. Good Location:

The design of the Hotel will be guided by the geographical location of the Hotel e.g. if a Hotel is situated near the airport or railway station, the reception of the Hotel will be designed in such a way that it could handle a large number of guests at one time because there is a possibility of guest checking in large groups and around the clock. Similarly, Hotel situated at hill stations, beaches and the Hotels located in heart of the cities and metros will be designed differently.

4. Suitable Material:

The Hotel should be designed in such a way that it should be able to use the material locally available which will be cost-effective and efficient.

5. Good Workmanship:

While designing a Hotel one should consider the fact that what kind of workmanship is available and designer should take advantage of local expertise. This will not only make the hotel efficient but also will be economical.

6. Sound Financing:

One of the very important factors is finance in designing the Hotel. The availability of ready funds and management of finance is a crucial factor and it should be considered very carefully in Hotel Design.

7. Competent Management:

The design of a Hotel will depend upon the quality of management available to operate the establishment. If we have the quality management and manpower only then Hotel should be designed for sophisticated equipment and high tech gadgets.

Here’s what hotels will look like in the future a blog from Business Insider which you might like.

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Syllabus BHM306

01 Hotel Design

  1. Design Consideration
    1. Attractive Appearance
    2. Efficient Plan
    3. Good location
    4. Suitable material
    5. Good workmanship
    6. Sound financing
    7. Competent Management

02 Facilities Planning

  1. The systematic layout planning pattern (SLP)

Planning consideration

  1. Flow process & Flow diagram
  2. Procedure for determining space considering the guiding factors for guest room/ public facilities, support facilities & services, hotel administration, internal roads/budget hotel/5 star hotel

Architectural consideration

  1. Difference between carpet area plinth area and super built area, their relationships, reading of blue print (plumbing, electrical, AC, ventilation, FSI, FAR, public Areas)
  2. Approximate cost of construction estimation
  3. Approximate operating areas in budget type/5 star type hotel approximate other operating areas per guest room
  4. Approximate requirement and Estimation of water/electrical load gas, ventilation

03 Star Classification of Hotel

  1. Criteria for star classification of hotel (Five, four, three, two, one & heritage)

04 Kitchen

  1. Equipment requirement for commercial kitchen
    1. Heating – gas/electrical
    2. Cooling (for various catering establishment)
  2. Developing Specification for various Kitchen equipments
  3. Planning of various support services (pot wash, wet grinding, chef room, larder, store & other staff facilities)

05 Kitchen Layout & Design

  1. Principles of kitchen layout and design
  2. Areas of the various kitchens with recommended dimension
  3. Factors that affect kitchen design
  4. Placement of equipment
  5. Flow of work
  6. Space allocation
  7. Kitchen equipment, manufacturers and selection
  8. Layout of the commercial kitchen (types, drawing a layout of a Commercial kitchen)
  9. Budgeting for kitchen equipment

06 Kitchen Stewarding Layout and Design

  1. Importance of kitchen stewarding
  2. Kitchen stewarding department layout and design
  3. Equipment found in kitchen stewarding department

07 Stores – Layout and Design

  1. Stores layout and planning (dry, cold and bar)
  2. Various equipment of the stores
  3. Work flow in stores

08 Energy Conservation

  1. Necessity for energy conservation
  2. Methods of conserving energy in different area of operation of a hotel
  3. Developing and implementing energy conservation program for a hotel

09 Car Parking

  1. Calculation of car park area for different types of hotels

10 Planning for Physically Challenged

11 Project Management

  1. Introduction to Network analysis
  2. Basic rules and procedure for network analysis
  3. C.P.M. and PERT
  4. Comparison of CPM and PERT
  5. Classroom exercises
  6. Network crashing determining crash cost, normal cost