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Candela Windows Of Opportunity

PROJECT TYPE: Hotel

DATE: Fall 2022

SITE SELECTED: Atlanta, United States

BUILD-UP AREA: 60,000 SQF

The hotel is centered around the translation of views through light and spatial organization in order to promote a sense of gaze and glance. The theme of the hotel responds to views between exterior and interior spaces with light guidance in order to enhance visitor and pedestrian interaction. Visitors experience the space like a mirror, by looking in or looking out. This allows for visual opportunities of interest. The structure itself enhances the sense of gazing and glancing through the use of solid bamboo walls or frosted curtain walls.

Original Form

Starting off with simple rectilinear form for optimum subtractive properties

Push

Push planes back from boundary to create hybrid spaces that allow to for balance in light and space

Gaze vs Glance

Local Downtown Atlanta site location includes a multitude of parking lots, restaurants and local markets. Site specific programs that are missig in the immediate vicinity include a hotel with a built-in enteratainment

Openings & Planes

Providing a floating effect by creating openings on the first level.

Views

Creating hybrid spaces in order to create unique view accessibility with multiple angles.

Extrude

Unify the interior corners through progression of space in order to continue language throughout building

Lightings

Transmitting light through in and out of the building. Creating exterior views through interior light.

6’’’ COLD FORMED LIGHT GAUGE STEEL EXTERIOR GYPSUM SHEATHING

NON-PERMEABLE WATERPROOFING

4’’ EXTERIOR SEMI-RIGID INSULATION

WINDOW WALL

Curtain wall 4’

Joists 2’ O.C

Wide flange W12 x 26

WWF-Welded wide Flange-Column

WWF 18 x 152

WWF 14 x 128

Wide flange W12 x 26