Peter Fillat Architects' Design For CityStay Prototype Reinvents The Hotel
November, 2007
New vision for a new generation of travelers
CityStay Hotel Prototype
BALTIMORE, MD - Peter Fillat Architects (PFA) has designed the prototype for 24-year-old hotel entrepreneur Gregory Tubeck's CityStay Hotels. The design created by PFA, a nationally known, award-winning, full-service architecture firm based in Baltimore, visually evokes CityStay's unique concept of a modern urban hotel for the next generation of business and leisure travelers.
CityStay Hotels are designed to be high quality, lower cost lifestyle hotels geared toward Gen X and Y customers. The company describes the hotels as more than just a place to sleep. Each one is a destination.
"The façade we designed brings to mind a city skyline and is adaptable so it can mesh with different urban environments. The design also makes it easy to fit the building into an urban, mixed-use grid," explains Principal Peter A. Fillat, III, AIA, LEED AP. "When you enter the hotel, you are kinesthetically enveloped by the scene in the bar lounge which is open on the second level above you. It's an active, engaging entrance that creates a young, urban atmosphere."
Sustainability and a minimized carbon footprint are also essential elements of the CityStay brand. To that end, the architecture includes a wide variety of green products and technologies including integrated sun shading to minimize energy use, Low-e glass, green roofs, low flow toilets and radiant heating and cooling.
The latest technologies are also integrated into the hotel with kiosks in the lobby for check-in and check-out and CityScreens in each room that take the place of a concierge, linking guests to restaurants, car services and more inside and outside the hotel.
"New generation travelers are looking for a very different hotel experience and the sleek, unique look and feel of this design prototype signals that CityStay is the place where they will find that experience," Fillat adds.