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In the modern lifestyle, as high-tech culture develops, manual labor is replaced with machineries, while interpersonal relationships drift further apart due to the advent of machine culture and technological objects. Advertisements constantly introduce slimmer, more powerful and more novel inventions with greater functionalities; technology has strengthened daily life efficiency, and we come to rely on the convenient system and interface of such a world, which causes us to gradually neglect the perceptive ability of our bodies. Production technology is assembled in the urban environment, and the system has pushed rationalization to the extreme, so that individual awareness is narrowed; society has restricted imagination and originality.
For the research process and methodology, based on the perspectives of Baudrillard’s System of Objects, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception and Mellin’s Spatial Context, the relationship between modern living and life is reexamined, where the country experience is introduced into the high density and highly developed urban environment to examine the interface produced by the two seemingly conflicting living experiences. Since the land ratio enjoyed in the country far exceeds that of cities, therefore, the space created in cities, which employs abundant physical experience and progress, is the target of examination.
Taking the hotel as example, it is a short-term accommodation space in the urban area and is regarded as a home away from home. It fulfills the needs of the consumers as much as possible, and numerous types of spatial contexts are derived from it; another type of urban living space can be experienced through brief stays, in turn providing a perspective of critical reflection and anticipation.
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