A importância do Lobby no espaço contemporâneo do hotel : proposta de um lobby para o Pestana Cascais

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Sofia Ramos Bazenga
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/44717
• topic: Grupo Pestana Hotel; Hotel Pestana Cascais; Foyers; Design de equipamento; Design de interiores; Hotelaria; Domínio/Área Científica::Humanidades::Artes

The word lobby comes from LOBIUM in Latin and it conveys not only to a space, vestibule or antechamber, but also to the practice of lobbying. This practice has been carried out for decades in different spaces where dialogue searched to persuade communicators in the promotion of ideas or propagation of given actions. Currently, the lobby area integrated in hospitality emerges as a continuity and a memory of the meetings between the first travelers, that established the notion of moving from one place to the next, as well as the necessity of creating the early stages of hospitality, lodging, etc. As travels, commerce and guest needs have significantly increased, hotel management has evolved which has helped creating new types of hospitality such as boutique hotels, resorts, casino hotels, inns, etc. The hotel lobby is quite possibly, the most important area in the facility as it is not only the most exposed space as well as the first impression for a newly-arrived traveller. The major impact for visitors and passers-by is created in this universe. This way, a lobby can be used as a form of persuasion and an image propagation tool for the hotel. Starting from this idea, this project aims to reflect and seek intervention in the environment that is reserved for lobbies. For this reason and for this design project it was chosen a hotel – Hotel Pestana Cascais – Ocean Conference Aparthotel (Pestana Hotel Group) bringing to light new space dispositions, recommend new equipment with the intention of updating and revitalizing the space as well as bringing it up to date and modernizing it to the place it is located in. A research focusing on lobbies, in general as well as at the Pestana Hotel Group, was conducted as supporting material in order to contextualize it in a historic plan, highlighting the importance of each of them so they can develop a better understanding for future hotel lobby projections and designs.