ARCHITECTURAL THESIS

(building program)

FIVE STAR HOTEL DESIGN

Submitted By : Abdulwahab

As far as hotel is concerned hotel can be divided into 2 main categories:

 ·0 Front of the house
·1 Back of the house
“front of the house” is that area which is visible to the guests. “Back of the house” is
where all those services are available which the guests cannot see but whose efficient
working comforts the guests.
·2 Public areas
·3 Private areas
·4 Administrative area
Front of the House:

Starting from the front of the house areas we look at the details of the guest room floors
5 star (luxury) The first class hotels are:

Reception opened 24 hours, multilingual staff

Doorman-service or valet parking
Concierge, page boy
Spacious reception hall with several seats and beverage service
Personalized greeting for each guest with fresh flowers or a present in the room
Minibar and food and beverage offer via room service during 24 hours
Personal care products in flacons
Internet-PC in the room
Safe in the room
Ironing service (return within 1 hour), shoe polish service
Turndown service in the evening
Mystery guesting
Following are the requirements of five star hotel :
1- Public Areas
·5 Lobby
·6 Reception desk
·7 Waiting lounge
·8 Gallery
 ·9 Common toilet
·10 Cloak room
·11 Shops

2- Food and Beverage

·12 Mini bar

·13 Cafe
·14 Multi-cuisine restaurant
·15 Specialty restaurant
3- Rooms

·16 Standard rooms

·17 Suite rooms
·18 Tree houses
·19 Presidential suite
4- Meetings and gathering

·20 Conference hall

·21 Meetings rooms
5- Fitness and Spa

·22 Gym
·23 Spa
·24 Beauty parlor
·25 Yoga / Meditation rooms
6- Fun and Recreation

·26 Discotheque
·27 Swimming pool/ wading pool
·28 Bowling alley
·29 Table tennis
·30 Billiards room
·31 Gaming arcade
7- . Administration

Front desk and front office

Accounting
Executive
Sales and catering
·32 Front desk and front office:
The front office is play very important role in hotel. It includes the following
area:

·33 Front desk

·34 Reception
·35 Secretary
·36 Director room
·37 Reservation area
·38 Telephone operators
·39 Safe deposit area
·40 Accounting room
·41 Work area/mail etc
Accounting:
The layout of the accounting area is not complicated by special operating requirements or
technical equipment’s, except that with increase computerization, the offices need to be
flexible enough to accommodate new desktop system as they are developed.
Executive offices:
The executive office includes the following:
·42 Reception area
·43 General manager
·44 Executive assistant manager
·45 Food and beverage manager
 ·46 Secretary
·47 Conference room
·48 Toilets
Sales and catering:
The sale and catering offices are responsible for attracting group buisneess
and servicing and meting and banquet once they are in hotel.
The cluster include the following:

·49 Reception
·50 Director of sales
·51 Sales representative
·52 Banquet manager
·53 Banquet representative
·54 Convention service manager
·55 Function book room
·56 Secretary
·57 Toilets
·58 Store

8- Kitchen

·59 Purchase room

·60 General store
·61 Kitchen
·62 Preparation area
·63 Cold storage
·64 Dry storage
·65 Butchery
·66 Bakery
 ·67 Chef’s room
·68 In-room dining
·69 Dish/utensil wash and store
9- Other services

·70 Staff rest room

·71 Staff canteen
·72 Wet and dry waste room
·73 Laundry
·74 Panel/generator/plant room
·75 STP
·76 Workshops

·77 Public Space:

·78 The lobby included is front office is 11sft per room.

·79 The front desk or counter is length of 10ft for 50 rooms and 15ft for 100 rooms.

·80 The lounge is usually allotted about 6sft per guest room.

·81 The man toilet is 1sft per room.

·82 The women’s toilets are 1sft per room.

·83 The rest room for women is 1sft per room.

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Lobby and front 1 2000sf

office

2. Lounge 1 600sf

3. Toilets (M) 2 150sf

 4. Toilet (F) 2 150sf

5. Women’s rest 1 100sf

room

6. Coat checkroom 1 120sf

7. Bellman’s 1 40sf
checkroom

Total 3160sft

·84 Guest Room Space:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Single bedroom 70 270 x 70 = 18900sf

2. Double bedroom 20 300

300x20=6000sf

3. Deluxe room 25 580sf

580x15=8700

4. Suites 4 1230 x 4 = 4920

5. Royal suite 1 2143sf

6. Office 1 150sf

Dinning 2 840

Total 41653 sf

·85 Concession And Sub rental Spaces:

·86 The barber shop is allotted about 1.5sft per guest room.

·87 The beauty parlour is allotted about 2sft per guest room.
 ·88 The valet shop is allotted about 1sft per guest room.

·89 A telegraph office is allotted about 40 to 60sft on front desk.

·90 The 1 store is allotted for 35 guest room, and 20 to 30sft are is allot per guest
room.

The storage space for rented store is 1/3rd of the store area

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Barber shop 1 150sf

2. Beauty parlour 1 200sf

3. Valet shop 1 100sf

4. Store 3 200sf x 3 = 600sf

Total 1050sft

·91 Restaurant:

Food And Beverage Service Space:

·92 The dinning seating 16sft per guest room .

·93 The main kitchen is about 40% of the dining area.

·94 The main kitchen services the main dining, the coffee shop, the banquet
hall, private dining rooms, employee’s meal and room service to guest.

·95 The baked area is 20% of the main kitchen and 2sft per guest room.

·96 The coffee shop is allotted 7sft per guest room. The 14sft per seat is
required for coffee seating.

·97 The bar and cocktail lounge area is allotted about 7.5sft per guest room.

·98 Average one private dining room is for 80 guest room. The total area for
private dining room is 7sft per guest room.

·99 The banquet ball room area is about 10 to 20sft per guest room.
 ·100 The banquet ball room foyer area is one sixth to one third of the
banquet ball room area.

·101 Banquet ball room storage is about one tenth of the banquet ball
area.

·102 Banquet ball room pantry is about 23% of the banquet ball area.

·103 Employee’s dining room is allotted 1.4sft per guest room.

·104 Beverage storage is allotted 1.4sft per guest room.

·105 Receiving room is allotted about 1.6sft per guest room.

·106 The garbage room is allotted about 0.75sft per guest room.

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

Waiting + reception 1 300sf

1. Seating for 120 seats/ 1 1920sf

per 16sf

2. Kitchen 1 600sf

3. Music area 1 100sf

4. Coffee shop for 30 1 500sf

5. Toilets 1 280sf

Total 3700sft

·107 Banquet Area:

The banquet ball room area is about 10 to 20sft per guest room. 14 x 120 = 1680

The banquet ball room foyer area is one sixth to one third of the banquet ball
room area.

Banquet ball room storage is about one tenth of the banquet ball area.
 Banquet ball room pantry is about 16% of the banquet ball area.

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Banquet ball 2 1680 x 2 = 3360sf

room

2. Banquet 1 732sf
ballroom foyer

3. Banquet 1 366sf
ballroom storage

4. Banquet serving 1 585.8sf

pantry

5. Staff room 1 200sf

5. Office 1 120sf

5. Toilets (M) 2 120sf

6. Toilets (F) 2 120sf

Total 5603sft

·108 Food And Beverage Space:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Main kitchen 1 1600sf

2. Dry food storage 30% of 1600sf 477sf

4. Frozen food 10% of 1600sf 160sf

storage

5. Butcher room 1 120sf

6. Beverage storage 15% of 1100sf 165sf

7. Non-food storage 15% of 1100sf 165sf

 Total 2687sft

·109 Back Of House:

General Service Space:

The manager office area requires minimum 100sft.

The accounting office area requires minimum 150sft.

Linen room is usually from 2 to 4.5sft per guest room.

The laundry area is usually allotted 7sft per guest room.

The men’s toilets and locker room in the employee’s area is allotted 2.4sft per
guest room.

The women’s toilets and locker is also remaining the same as men’s toilets.

35% for toilets and 65% for lockers.

Maintenance Shop:

Maintenance shops are necessary to keep the hotel running.

·110 Plumbing and electric shop

·111 Carpentry and upholstering shop

·112 Paint-varnish room

·113 The typical allotment for the maintenance shop is 4sft per guest
room.

·114 The typical allotment for the storage furniture is 2.5sft per guest
room.

·115 The typical allotment for the boiler room is 6st per guest room.

·116 The typical allotment for the fuel storage is 2.2sft per guest room.
An allotment for the transformer vault is 1sft per guest room

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Receiving and 1 180sf

purchase office

2. Food and beverage 1 180sf

controller offcie

3. Trash and Garbage 1 120sf

room

3. Empty bottle storage 1 120sf

room

4. Receiving room 1 160sf

5. General storage 1 300sf

Total 1060sft

·117 Laundry Areas:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Laundry 1 860sf

2. Non-iron laundry 1 340sf

3. Laundry supervisor 1 100sf

3. Valet laundry 1 150sf

4. Supplies storage 1 125sf

Total 1575sft

·118 House Keeping:

 Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. House keeper office 1 150sf

2. Supply storage 1 120sf

3. Linen storage 1 700sf

4. Uniform issue storage 1 180sf

5. Supplies storage 1 100sf

Total 1250sft

·119 Employee’s area:

Employees per room 0.6

No of rooms are 100 so = 0.6 x 100

Total number of employees = 60

No of shifs is = 3 x 60 = 180

18sf per seat for the employee dinning room

Locker room are require per employee.

One toilet for 15 employee, one wash bowl for 8 to 10 person and one urinal for
15 employee.

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Employees room (M) 1 325sf

2. Employees room (F) 1 325sf

3. Toilets (M) 2 120sf

3. Toilets (F) 2 120sf

Shower room (M) 2 40sf

 Shower room (F) 2 40sf

4. Changing room (M) 4 64sf

5. Changing room (F) 4 64sf

6. Locker room 2 400sf

6. Training centre and 1 300sf

interview

7. Conference room 1 300fst

8. Dinning room 1 500sf

Total 2598sft

·120 Front Office:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

2. Reception 1 100sf

3. Director of room 1 150sf

4. Reservation area 1 250sf

5. Reservation manager 1 150sf

6. Telephone operator 1 150sf

7. Front office 1 100sf

8. Safe deposite 1 48sf

Total 1010sft

·121 Accounting Office:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. Controller 1 250sf
 2. Ass. Controller 1 150sf

3. Head cashier 1 150sf

4. Accounting work area 1 200sf

5. Computer room 1 150sf

6. Secretary room 1 150sf

7. Toilets and storage 1 300sf

Total 1350sft

·122 Executive Office:

Sr. no Requirements Quantity Area in sft

1. General manager 1 350sf

2. Executive Ass.manager 1 200sf

3. Director of food and 1 250sf

beverage

4. Manager of laundry 1 200sf

5. Manager of kitchen 1 200sf

6. Manager of cinema 1 200sf

7. Secretary 1 150sf

8. Conference room 1 425sf

9. Seminar room 1 730sf

Total 2905sft