/ hotel pianeta

Near the house where I grew up, there are several late 19th-century villas; many of them are abandoned, and some have had every access bricked up.
I wondered whether a building that has no doors or windows—or no longer has them—can still be considered a building.
Is accessibility a necessary condition for architecture?
And if there is a small interstice through which a mosquito or a rat can get in, does that change anything?
I then imagined an inaccessible building, without any openings. Let’s say a complex volume that evokes architecture in its forms (and name):
it is called Hotel Pianeta, and on certain nights it is mysteriously inhabited as windows appear on its façades.

Hotel Pianeta was conceived as a series of A2 posters, designed to be cut and folded into an atmospheric night lamp.

2025