Yiqing Miao .
Interior & Spatial Design

Years have passed by when a certain Babelian returned to The Overlook Hotel. The place where he/she/they once found refuge was now abandoned and derelict. The Babelian envisioned it as a place that would bring other babelians from around the world to fulfill a ‘bigger than itself’ purpose, a sort of retreat.
Design a Retreat in what “used to be” the Overlook Hotel. The project must contain at least one threshold.

This project will investigate how existing places (predominantly rooms and buildings) can be inhabited for specific purposes. The development of an understanding of a particular activity, use, function, task, operation or ritual will be key to this.
This project will aim to investigate how we design interior spaces and to fully resolve the reorganising of an existing building from conceptual inception to a fully realised and resolved interior, taking into account Building Regulations and accessibility. The work will evaluate practical factors such as ergonomics, systems and processes but will go beyond this to consider emotional, sensual and spiritual issues as key components. People and the activities they undertake in buildings are this project’s prime concern.
Drawing from Babel explorations previously undertook in Identities and Proximities, the emphasis of the project will move from the personal into the communal ways of life. That is, you are now required to design for a group of people sharing a common purpose.

The Site

The Overlook Hotel from Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining (1980). 

Inhabitations: Babel’s Retreat