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INVISINBLE HOTEL Nikolas Travasaros & Dimitris Travasaros / Dimitris Panagiotou-Ntounis / Elena Stavraki The hotel is articulated upon the key moment when you submit your identification card at the reception. You are then permitted to access a room and thus a new identity. A transition takes place, from the everyday configuration to a new condition of relative anonymity. This transition allows the participation to a series of events related to the extraordinary, the excessive and the deviating. The programmatic agenda of the hotel includes illicit activities that do not belong to the ones of the everyday scope. The activities that we choose to repulse from our familiar perception, find their spatial expression in the hotel. The room being the elementary cell of the hotels organisation, hosts unexpected acquaintances. The lobby covers illegal transactions. The restaurant offers the experience of unusual luxury. The casino not only promises to fulfill the hidden desire for quick profit but offers the necessary portion of adrenaline that comes with gambling. The cabaret allows for a temporary displacement towards the ecstacy of lust. The hotel seeks for its space at the perimeter of the metropolis, where the city repulses its parasitic activities. It detects the overflowing illicit atmosphere in the region of Loutraki and intrudes into the Isthmos Canal. It occupies a non-place, an area marked on no map, a gap that emerged from the successive breaking of the north side of ...