Case Study PARKROYAL ON PICKERING Taipei - Taiwan
Architects - WOHA
Architects: WOHA was founded by Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell in 1994. The Singapore-based practice focuses on conceiving integrated architectural and urban solutions to tackle the problems of the 21st century such as climate change, population growth and rapidly increasing urbanization.
WOHA is focused on integrated design for the built environment, encompassing a continuum through master planning, architectural, landscape, interior to lighting and furniture design
Their buildings are prototypes that are made up of interconnected human-scaled environments which foster community, facilitate stewardship of nature, generate biophilic beauty, activate ecosystem services and build resilience.
PARKROYAL ON PICKERING
S
N W
Site: Taipei, Taiwan
PARKROYAL – Located in a bustling business area of a fast paced city. Tourism and travel is the primary allure and Parkroyal caters to this exceedingly. Set on a diagonal to true North and and a higher axis sun path allow the structure to experience natural sunlight on both sides of the location almost 8 months a year.
2ND FLOOR
5TH FLOOR
COLUMN LAYOUT IS SET ON A GRID TO INCREASE STRUCTURAL SUPPORT AND FOUNDATION.
Misc Observations and Factoids
Floor Count : 16
Guest Rooms: 367
Elevators : 15
>Path, Organization, & Form - Linear >Support structure on Grid Form >Defined Space – Overhead Plane >Approach – Frontal >Relationship of Path is THROUGH spaces >Hierarchy is by Placement dictated by need of guest
Parking : 104
Meeting Halls / Banquet Rooms : 4
*Day to day personnel would range from 50-150 per day *Guest numbers on busy day could top 2000 *Over 15000 plants included in the structure * In excess of 30,000 lighting instruments, 85% LED *During daytime, a maximum use of natural light is use while Nightime boasts well placed accent lighting