An Innovative Approaches to Reflects the Mediterranean Architecture Character In Interior Atmosphere on Five-star Hotel Lobbies: Case of Kyrenia

In the world today, international world tourism has become more competitive and widespread. The number of travelers has significant growth of the touristic world's places, especially the Mediterranean region, that for the development of technology and transportation sector. That led to increased competition between the hotel industries and made the hotels looking to find a special character with their architectural style. This research investigated how to deal with the effects of Mediterranean architectural characters in hotel lobbies. In this sector, the competition is increasing day by day, for that it is significant to add a special character and distinguish it from others. Additionally, the chain hotels usually spread everywhere, but the problem of these hotels it doesn't follow the cultural and geographical characters of the place, which led to less in attracts and attention for travelers. This research investigate the relationship between the characteristics of Mediterranean architecture and the interior atmosphere components of the five-star hotel lobby to solve the problems mentioned above. The main aim is to create innovative approaches to show the effects of Mediterranean architecture's characters and types on design lobbies' interior atmospheres. The qualitative research methodologies, based on the literature review, are considered the base of research which the observation table was obtained. According to the research, there are four different Mediterranean architectural types, consisting of Spanish, Moroccan, Italian, and Greek, which were determined as a result of the research. Then examine the observation table for four different hotels selected as it the best according to the systematic filtration in highest rating by customers, which it from the countries has four types of Mediterranean architectural then examine the findings. Also, the data are taken from the literature review and selected cases for the different types that decided the manner of using the Mediterranean architectural types in the lobby. The next step is to study reality's lobbies for the three different five-star hotels in Kyrenia TRNC. That revealed to selected lobbies did not include a characterized of Mediterranean architectural character. As a result, was creating suggestions for convert the selected lobbies that examine to Mediterranean architectural types in four different suggestions according to Mediterranean architectural types for each lobby. As a result of the research, it was emphasized that it is possible to use this approach model, which was designed with the limits brought within the scope of the thesis, for five-star hotel lobbies in different Mediterranean countries.