1. Which building typology you are researching?
Hotel/ Exhibit
2. Why are you researching this typology?
I am researching hotels in order to successfully design a combination of a hotel and Exhibit that enhance the experience of people, especially tourists who come to the city.
3. What is the specialty of this building type you would like to research?
Tourist attraction. To create an inviting experience to people, while they enjoy their comfortable stay.
H2Otel
Architects:RAU
Location: The Netherlands
The H2Otel hotel has been designed with a sustainable approach with water. It is situated in an urban site in Amsterdam. The facade consist of a dense arrangement of wooden lam on the south-facing facade to protect the building from heat.
The wooden material used for a highrise building such as the H2otel forms a means of inspiration for my design ideas.
http://www.archdaily.com/68135/h2otel-powerhouse-company-rau/
H2Otel
Architects:RAU
Location: The Netherlands
The H2Otel hotel has been designed with a sustainable approach with water. It is situated in an urban site in Amsterdam. The facade consist of a dense arrangement of wooden lam on the south-facing facade to protect the building from heat.
The wooden material used for a highrise building such as the H2otel forms a means of inspiration for my design ideas.
Vivanta Hotel
Architects:WOW architects
Location: India
Project Year: 2009
Located at the entrance of the International Tech Park at Whitefield, Bangalore , India, the hotel is a gateway statement between the IT Park and the developing city around it. The designers were inspired to question and push the boundaries of hotel design, not just to address the needs of the discerning traveller coming to India, but also to redefine and intensify the hotel as a contemporary socio-cultural hub for both the IT Park and IT-based population in India.
The Vivanta Hotel captures the eye with its beautiful bright and loud exterior, yet blending in with the environment.
Losium Hotel
Architects:Steven Hall Architects
Location: Austria
Project Year: 2001-2005
Offering a variety of activities and room types, the Loisium Hotel offers guests and visitors a variety of experiences. Earth like materials and palette combined with the views of the surrounding landscape create a strong connection and relationship of the hotel to its context.
The Losium Hotel is very interesting in a way that, the cubes are not just attached side by side, but they have been cleverly arranged in a style that makes it more appealing to it's appearance and surroundings as well.
Hotel in Gdynia
Architects:Igor Brozyna
Location: Poland
Located in an open landscape in Gdynia, Poland, The site of this hotel is located between a steep slope, which provides an open view, and a path that leads to the sea. To clearly separate the private space from the public, the slope was extended so that it smoothly becomes the roof above the ground level. The public features of the hotel, which include the reception hall, restaurant, spa entrance, and cafe are placed under the green roof so that they are easily accessible from the street.The material used on the facade is wood, which occurs on the nearby pier and historical buildings in the district.
The Park Hotel
Architects:Skidmore Owings and Merrill
Location: India
Project Year: 2010
The park Hotel has about 270 rooms, and infuses a modern, sustainable design with the local craft traditions.
East Hotel
Architects: CL3 architects
Location: China
Project Year: 2010
The name “EAST” resulted from the design concept which interprets the contemporary Oriental/Hong Kong travel experience as being world class, efficient, modern, playful, with a touch of Chinese culture.
http://www.archdaily.com/58627/east-hotel-cl3-architects/
Lone Hotel
Architects: 3LHD
Location: Rovinj, Croatia
Project Year: 2011
Created by a team of renowned Croatian creatives comprised of a new generation of architects, conceptual artists, product, fashion and graphic designers, Hotel Lone is the first design hotel in Croatia, and is situated in the Monte Mulini forest park. This park is one of Rovinj’s most attractive tourist zones, located in the immediate vicinity of the legendary Eden Hotel and the new Monte Mulini hotel. The surrounding grounds and parkland is a unique and protected region of the Monte Mulini forest on the Lone Bay.
Location: Rovinj, Croatia
Project Year: 2011
Created by a team of renowned Croatian creatives comprised of a new generation of architects, conceptual artists, product, fashion and graphic designers, Hotel Lone is the first design hotel in Croatia, and is situated in the Monte Mulini forest park. This park is one of Rovinj’s most attractive tourist zones, located in the immediate vicinity of the legendary Eden Hotel and the new Monte Mulini hotel. The surrounding grounds and parkland is a unique and protected region of the Monte Mulini forest on the Lone Bay.
The thin geometric shape of the building stucture resembles contour line of a mountain in the forest, creating an more organic approach to the design.
Caldor Hotel Hotel
Location:Austria
Architect:Sohne and Partners
The structure of the Hotel emerges along the road. The buckling shape gives the Hotel a high profile from the main road – both directions. At the cross point you find the lobby, the main access, the check in machine, and the other spaces.
The square-like openings through the hotel facade create a connection with the sky. The structure of the Hotel emerges along the road. The buckling shape gives the Hotel a high profile from the main road – both directions. At the cross point you find the lobby, the main access, the check in machine, and the other spaces.
7800 Cesme Residences and Hotel
Location: Cesme-izmir, Turkey Architect: Emre Arolat Architects
The Çeşme 7800 project was developed throughout a design tendency which is posed problematic on the new identities and mass that grew out of this new situation, in the context of the effect on the existing structure.Main mass has been made closer to the border of the road. So that the frontal large beach and the natural environment has left as is exists as possible.
The building is aesthetically pleasing, and it makes one believe it is a hill that allow water to just flow freely.
Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel
Location:London, England
Architect:BUJ architects
Project year: 2010
The Westminster hotel provides about 1000 rooms. From the hotel, is a walking distance to many tourist attraction areas in London.
Designed in a dense populated area, this hotel encourages warm attitude towards it.
http://www.archdaily.com/135630/westminster-bridge-park-plaza-hotel-buj-architects-uri-blumenthal-architects-digital-space/__view-2-exterior/
1. What are your goals for working with this building type?
To connect people to the art of architecture , as well as making a hotel present whiles providing their temporal housing needs. I want to promote a home away from home.
2. What are the program elements that you see included at this point in your building?
I have been inspired by organic elements, and I am looking forward to incorporate some of its features including water for the hotel design.
Your choice of building typology is very interesting and offers many branches of research. I find it helpful often to properly define or use informative facets of definitions to derive new meanings about subjects that may not be always clear. You may find many definitions of what is Hotel and what is Exhibit or Exhibition, that may also offer clues as to how to approach the idea of integrating two seperate typologies. For example we have been conditioned to comprehend meaning of typologies without questioning what else they may be as in the case of saying bathroom or living room. William Katavalos once stated that the bathroom was the universal space of the future, because it involved all of the facets of various body states, horizontal, vertical, sitting positions. Does a bathroom have other more profound namesakes like "room of peace", "space of contemplation", "chamber of self reflection", "hall of purification or oneness", "space of discretion". If the hotel had a true self, what would it be. Is there another interpretation of exhibit? These are all questions that should ask yourself early on while doing your research and investigations. Correlating and distinguishing between knowledge is itself part of the essence of what is the architectural process. How we digest and interpret information is just as important as what we do with it. Gamal El Zoghby once stated that "architecture is the structure of language", this means that how we organize, connect and structure knowledge is language in itself. What sentence we form and whether it is profound, innovative, inspiring or not is up to us.
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Regards,
Peter Z
Thank you Peter.
ReplyDeleteHello Sarah,
ReplyDeleteLook at the 'pod' concept of metabolists. Analyze the relation between units and vertical circulation - central core. Look at nakagin tower by Kisho Kurokawa. You can also read the following text in your free time for a poetical understanding of the capsule concept.
http://www.abitare.it/it/harvard-logbook/nakagin-capsule-tower-a-manifesto/
Also, since you are interested in Organic forms study works of Greg Lynn just to take an idea of what is the contemporary debate related to industrial lines and biological forms.
Best,
Loukia