Gradient and Mutation

Instead of a normal podium+tower typology, the project uses the hotel program to occupy the main street corner, and act as a wrapper and camouflage to go around the gym program on lower levels. The hotel room types is then required to transform from single loaded type to double loaded type. This stimulus urges the hotel rooms to transform gradually and suddenly to achieve both a smooth external facade as well as a reasonable internal layout. The overall form of the building is a result of both gradient and mutation.

2014

Sectional rendering

Hotel Tower, Miami

View from south west

The angle of the sea view available at higher level serves as another stimulus to drive the hotel to turn a 45 degree angle at the top. Both egresses are pushed under the two forces to shift from floor to floor. The tension derived from the hotel program urges the lower gym and pool programs to tipping to the opposite corner. The interface between the single loaded corridor and the gym program range from solid, to translucent,and to transparent.

The floor layout is changing from single-loaded corridor to double-loaded corridors. As the area and layout of room and the number of rooms are each floor are kept similar, the room dimension changes gradually but also mutationally, resulting in a shorter and wider floor layout, as well as an organic building outline, indicating the delicacy of mutations in the room types.

Structural Frame Model

Plans

Seventh Floor Plan

Model 1:200

GSD Core3

Instructor: Preston Scott Cohen