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BOUTIQUE HOTEL

Situated in downtown Cincinnati, the Boutique Hotel breaks from ordinary hotel arrangement exploring ambiguity through the layering and intersection of geometries. This is the third project following “A Thing Inside A Thing” and “A Thing”. When viewing the hotel from the exterior you are immediately presented with a colorful, complex façade. The façade is created through repetitive perforated screens covered in gradients to create a reading of multiple spatial worlds within one building but gives a fractured effect which is continued onto the interior. The interior becomes fractured through the use of the intersection and layering of perforated screens and gradients to produce different levels of interiority such as form within form and interior/exterior relationships. This hybrid of interior spaces and levels of understanding from surfaces to objects found in the different worlds each produce different spatial qualities.  

 

YEAR: 

M.ARCH

SEMESTER: 

FALL 2019

PROFESSORS: 

Sandhya Kochar

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Erik Herrmann

FRONT ELEVATION

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COLOR & PATTERN

The role of color is a direct relationship to the effects created in these different worlds since it is part of the system that creates the hybrid of spaces. The color relies on form, and form relies on color since it is another way to read the geometries. through this 1:1 relationship between form and color, the hotel embraces the multiple readings and perspectives produced so no part of the building is the same. 

 

The screen is not only adding to the ambiguous aspect of the design but gives a low resolution to spaces where a screen is separating but also connecting one area to another. The layering of the screen creates depth and volume to the envelope.  

MODEL PHOTOS

CIRCULATION

After entering the hotel, the lobby is a large void created from the intersection of object forms. The perforated screens on the inside create a sublime experience as light is filtered through the façade into the atrium. Perforated screens create levels of connection between program areas separate of the lobby such as a café and small gallery. Visitors move up the building to the various galleries, restaurant, and pool- the spaces transforming from fractured objects to whole forms towards the top as seen in section. The hybrid of public and private program gives visitors and hotel guests an eventful experience. 

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RENDER OF VOID

PLANS

MODEL PHOTOS

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