Hotel in Lisbon’s Structural “Y” Between Human Factors and Gentrification

Abstract

The hotel is one of the main constructs of contemporary landscape, and one of the phenomena that best summarizes some of the contradictions of present society, which is self-defined through two concepts that are interrelated in a dialectical and antagonistic way: Gentrification and Sustainability. The questions which the present work aims at answering are, not only how contemporary architectural hotel design has, in its different scales, been playing a determinant role in the gentrification of the center of Lisbon, but also how principles driven by the human factors/ergonomics discipline are determinant to support development, in an integrated way, namely in the three dimensions of sustainable development economic growth, social inclusion and environmental preservation, in line with the United Nations and European Union commitments towards a better future.