All people have a desire to show or to hide themselves. It is a desire to be developed and transformed; it is a voyeuristic or exhibitionistic desire. Voyeuristic desire in everyday life may help boost the energy of life, enriching the life of others as it represents the interest in the life and thoughts of other people. These desires are one of the important factors in designing space and have the potential to enrich spatial design. Hotel Voyeurism explores the relationship of seeing and being seen in terms of concealing and revealing. Space would be newly defined by how much inhabitants wanted to reveal and/or conceal. It is not about stillness in architecture but about the process and procedure of experiencing space.

 


2:00 PM /  People steel a peep at others through the Trans-Wall. On the same time they are also peeped at others.


8:00 AM /  White running outer corridor, people are watching the view of outside through the framed opening of wall.

 

Hotel voyeurism is comprised of multiple layers from outside to inside. 1st layer (most outer layer) divides building and street. 2nd layer is walls between corridor and room. It has Trans-Wall. Trans Walls change its transparency and opaqueness according to light, angle and distance form the wall. 3rd layer is operable solid wall inside room.
Trans-Wall confronts the conventional meaning of wall that separate two spaces. It is wall with various size holes in different angles from five to eighty degree. It interacts with multiple factors such as lighting at night, space, angles of sun, angles of vision, distance, objects, and movement. These factors make variations. Trans-Wall has kinetic and cinematic effect.  Both inside and outside the wall, people see constantly changing view while they are moving. Therefore, it generates different gazes between those who are watching from outside and those who are hiding or revealing inside. People start to play in space according to conceal and reveal.

 

Different angle of view cones make different effect. Eighty degree view cone makes hole. Different size and angle oval trace on the wall looks like decorative. When the lights come out at night inside, the effect maximizes.