contracts for compliance / completeness; bids review of for conformity and price adequacy. Public areas: Review of existing layout, mood boards and layout proposals; brief indicating design philosophy formulation; formulation of alternative arrangement and layout proposals. Grand Theatre Hotel, Central Business District, Beirut, Lebanon (in progress) Client : Design office: Employer: Roles & dates:
Solidere (Societe Libanaise pour le Developpement et la Reconstruction) Rogers, Stirk, Harbor and Partners, Anoushka Hempel Design Hospes Hotels SL Project Manager and Consulting Architect (2009-present)
Scope: Core Concept, Feasibility, Advisory, Competition, Concept and Schematic phases. Project description: Project Manager and Consulting Architect for 60-key ( initially 75) luxury hotel project consisting of refurbishment of additions to a 1920’s French period Art-decoislamic eclectic hotel inbcluding theater and separate apartment-building ensemble. Activities: Site analysis, existing conditions review, zoning study, review of location-induced market characteristics. Core concept, formulation of brief, destination and place-making rationale, spaces program, program location recommendations, urban design and variance recommendations, architectural, functional and design indications. Review and reports of competition schemes. Brief reformulations and clarifications for concept design and subsequent modified schematic design phases. Review of alternative concept design schemes. Technical systems, back-of-house, interior design and landscaping indications. Hospes Hotel Damascus, Old City, Damascus, Syria (artistic restoration, cleanup phases) Client Design office: Employer: Roles & dates:
Rayet Al Sham Hospes Hotels SL, Serge Brunst, Moussalam Sakka Hospes Hotels SL Project Manager, Building Planner, Consulting Architect (2009-present)
Scope: Core Concept, Feasibility Studies, Advisory, Concept Design Layouts. Project description: 45-key luxury hotel project consisting of refurbishment of various 19th century ottoman-period properties including one historic landmark property and only downtown garden, all to be interconnected. Activities: Assessment of main and prospective properties, recommendations on future property sites for acquisition; suggestions for main, secondary and service accesses; concept design and building planning for building permit of rooms layouts and orientations; public and back-of-house spaces location and characteristics definition including F&B, events restaurant, garden, closed and outdoor function spaces, spa, hammam and pools locations; assistance to developer in design and project team structuring.