CONCLUSION OF HOTELS

APPROACH CIRCULATION AND SPACE ORGANIZATION

NATURAL LIGHTING, STRUCTURE, AND PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC

HIERARCHY, SYMMETRY, AND GEOMETRY OF HOTELS

MASSING AND PARTI

Building Typology

1.     Which building typology you are researching?

The type of building typology that I will be researching this semester will be a Full Service Hotel. A Full Service Hotel is a Hotel that contains a full service accommodation, in addition the hotel can also contain a restaurant. As well in a full service hotel there can be a variety of amenities such as swimming pools, gym, children activities, saunas and tanning butler etc.

2.     Why are you researching this building typology?

The reason why I would like to research a Full Service Hotel building typology is because as we study the site of Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York we noticed that there where no Hotel’s near by our given Sites. Most of the Hotels are located in downtown Manhattan.  And after the hurricane Sandy affecting Red Hook really bad its now going to start to progress and more people will be visiting the Red Hook area and a great facility that should be built around the area should be a Hotel. So that people that visit the site if they wish to stay a couple of days around the area they can have a place to stay at the Hotel. Therefore, that is one of the main reasons why I believe that designing a Hotel located in the Red Hook area will be a successful building typology to design. 

3.     What is the specialty of this building type you would like to research i.e.   museum for dance, school for digital media…

The specialty that I would be providing in designing a Full Service Hotel in Red Hook is that it will be a place that will have a little bit of everything that will have my customers of all ages be encourage to want to stay in the Hotel. As well I would like to have my Hotel be handicapped accessible. 

1.     What are the examples that you will be researching… list the examples, location and architect  (10 examples)

1. Westin – Full Service Luxury Hotel near Washington DC,

Location

171 Waterfront Street

National Harbor, MD 20745

 2. Paasitorni Hotel

Location

Paasitorni, finland

Archiect: Juha Sundqvist

3. Hotel Avasa

Location

Madhapur, Hderabad, India

Architect: B. Nanda Kumar, Ankita Gupta, B.H Ravi Shankar, B. Naveen Reddy

4. Dallas Convention Center Hotel

Location: Dallas, United States

5. Sarovar Hotels

Location: India 

6. Mandarin Oriental Hotel

Location: Brickell Miami, Florida

7. W Hotel

Location: Downtown, New York

8. The James New York

Location: 27 Grand St, New York, 10013

Architect: ODA Architecture and Perkins Eastman

9. The Nolitan Hotel

Location: 30 Kenmare St, New York, NY 10012

10. Hilton New York Hotel

Location : Rockerfeller Center and sixth Avenue and 53^rd Street 

5.    What are you goals for working with this building type?

My goal for working with this building is that I would want people to enjoy their stay at the hotel. And by achieving that goal I want to provide the people a place where they can experience a little bit of everything that the hotel will offer. For example the hotel will have a full service that will provide a swimming pool, saunas, tanning butler and a gym to do exercise while staying at the hotel. As well it will have a variety of children activities. In addition it will have restaurant/cafe, provided to the customers that stay in the Hotel. 

6.   What are the program elements that you see included at this point in your building? (may  evolve once more research is done)

The programs that I will include in my building typology facility as of now are the following Lobby, Customer Service, Check-In Area, Restrooms, Gym, Swimming Pool Area, Tanning Area, Sauna Area, Game room, Laundry Room, Mechanical Room, Restaurant/Café, Kitchen, Storage, Loading dock, Rooms Occupancy (Single, Double, and Suite).

Desired Site

Hi everyone the site that I would like to use for my design project will be Site 4 because I like the view that we have from the Manhattan Skyline such as the Freedom Tower and as well the nice view of the Statue of Liberty. In addition, the reason for picking Site 4 is because the site is big and even though its at the end, the edge of the site came become a nice and useful view to encourage tourist people to visit when they travel through ferries, water taxi, boats, etc.

Site link :  http://arch3610f13site4.blogspot.com/