Sited in a lake at the heart of Walt Disney World’s futurist kingdom, 'Epcot Forever' is a hotel that endeavours to recreate a fragment of Walt Disney’s original dream and vision for Epcot: a utopian community of tomorrow shaped for the needs of today. Prevalent in our society are issues such as individual and communal alienation brought about by the digital age and an overly fast-paced, stressful lifestyle.
In response, the programme is for a hotel and spa that encourages people to re-engage in communal activities, such as public bathing, and to reconnect as well as rediscover a more intimate form of interaction with one another. At night, a second programme emerges through the Epcot Forever firework performance 'IllumiNations, Reflections of Earth'. The hotel enhances the experience of viewing fireworks through a rooftop water landscape from which one can enjoy the fireworks while bathing, by looking above or through the reflections in the water.