Aura Hotel is a thesis project developed for the Interior Design program at the Royal College of Art in 2023. This project explores speculative scenarios of new types of spaces and human beings, based on the spatial legacy of Charleston House in East Sussex. The hotel is situated in 2033, a future society dominated by replication technologies such as 3D scanning and 3D printing. The hotel is founded on the hypothesis that the spatial legacy of Charleston House can be reappropriated through numerous digital replica fragments. Bizarre spatial elements, such as pillow columns and fallen doors on the floor, visualize how these replicated fragments acquire identities in terms of use, size, and material as they undergo re-editing in the digital space, detached from their original context. Aura Hotel exemplifies the formation of peculiar and surreal spaces by inserting the digital fragments into new material contexts.
