just a question, but since you are lacking space why not fill the entire site? stadiums are balloon-like, expanding to fill sites, especially when they are located in urban contexts.
You will also be able to explore more creative directions if you give yourself fewer pre-conceptions.
Unless there is a FAR requirement or set back requirement the form you are exploring here seems valid only as a single direction, not a final answer. I would advise setting this version aside and looking at 2 or 3 more versions.
I know it is difficult to do this, but in my own office here in tokyo we routinely begin with 5 versions of a project and then compare and rework one or two before settling on a final design. It doesn't take any more time in the long run.
Apologies if you have already done that and only shown one version here...but if so, could you explain the merits of this version over, for example a square version, or a deformed ring that fills the edges of the site and eaes the interior open.
Again, there is no functional reason for not doing this latter, as the ground floor does not have to be the same shape as the floors above. It can be entirely open in fact, so that entering the hotel is an act of entering a suspended ring (you could drive under the outer ring of the hotel to enter into an interior space that is open to the sky instead of covered). Spatially that is not only more interesting, but also more in keeping with your concept, and gives you room to deal with parking that is not defined by the building footprint
Is there a reason you are not exploring that kind of form? why too are you assuming that the turnaround area needs to be separate from the hotel proper? they can easily overlap, spatially, which would mean you need not constrain yourself by the small shapes you are using here.
Please forgive my bluntness but there are a lot of opportunities embedded in the (very interesting!) concept that are quite powerful, and yet you seem to be focusing more on the aspects that will become constraints rather than points of liberation for you. If there is a reason for taking that path it would be interesting to see.
just a question, but since you are lacking space why not fill the entire site? stadiums are balloon-like, expanding to fill sites, especially when they are located in urban contexts.
ReplyDeleteYou will also be able to explore more creative directions if you give yourself fewer pre-conceptions.
Unless there is a FAR requirement or set back requirement the form you are exploring here seems valid only as a single direction, not a final answer. I would advise setting this version aside and looking at 2 or 3 more versions.
I know it is difficult to do this, but in my own office here in tokyo we routinely begin with 5 versions of a project and then compare and rework one or two before settling on a final design. It doesn't take any more time in the long run.
Apologies if you have already done that and only shown one version here...but if so, could you explain the merits of this version over, for example a square version, or a deformed ring that fills the edges of the site and eaes the interior open.
Again, there is no functional reason for not doing this latter, as the ground floor does not have to be the same shape as the floors above. It can be entirely open in fact, so that entering the hotel is an act of entering a suspended ring (you could drive under the outer ring of the hotel to enter into an interior space that is open to the sky instead of covered). Spatially that is not only more interesting, but also more in keeping with your concept, and gives you room to deal with parking that is not defined by the building footprint
Is there a reason you are not exploring that kind of form? why too are you assuming that the turnaround area needs to be separate from the hotel proper? they can easily overlap, spatially, which would mean you need not constrain yourself by the small shapes you are using here.
Please forgive my bluntness but there are a lot of opportunities embedded in the (very interesting!) concept that are quite powerful, and yet you seem to be focusing more on the aspects that will become constraints rather than points of liberation for you. If there is a reason for taking that path it would be interesting to see.