Case 3: Hotel
L’Orologio, Turin, italy
The
Residence L’Orologio is an urban hotel located in a central area of Turin, in
Piedmont Region.
This
apartment building built at the beginning of 20th century was refurbished and
converted into a hotel about 10 years ago; the renovation process was started
in 2003 by Talaia family, current owners and managers of the Residence. .
Residence L’Orologio offers 20 guestrooms, each of them fully supplied with
appliances such as fridge, dishwasher, electric oven, microwave, electric
stove, washing machine and TV. The extra facilities offered by the Residence
are a small gym, a kitchen for the staff and a children playroom, all located
at the half-basement floor.
The
specific objective of the MOBISTYLE project is to develop services with
tailor-made information to increase awareness on energy use and indoor
environmental quality among hotel different users and to provide
learning/guidance to create behavioral change towards significant reduction of
energy use.
A smaller
number of hotel users (5-7 persons) will participate in questionnaires,
interviews and focus group workshops to qualify the development of services and
tools.