Vol. II Thesis Book

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HOTEL 54 Boutique Hotel

Singapore, Maritime Southeast Asia

Vol. II - Design

Grayson Levitch

Grayson Levitch Virginia Tech Class of 2021

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A Boutique Hotel Located in Singapore

Vol. II - Design

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Vol. II Design

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CONTENTS. Project Statements

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Site Analysis & Inspiration

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Concept & Process

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Schematic Floorplans

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Hotel Spaces

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Finishes & Furniture

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Branding

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PROJECT STATEMENTS.

Project Statement

This thesis will focus on the design of a built environment made up of a 36,000 square foot, four story Boutique hotel located in the Republic of Singapore, a maritime Southeast Asian country. Limitations include the square footage being addressed and the form of the existing building. The developer is placing the hotel in the capital city of the Republic of Singapore, Singapore. This city is known for its diverse population, lively culture, and immense tourism. It attracted 18.5 million tourists in 2018, more than three times Singapore’s total population. A main contribution to its tourism is it is a major hub for business,conferences, and events, making it one of the most visited cities in the world. The Singapore hospitality industry wants to make an effort to enforce sustainable design through improved material research with an additional improved approach to wayfinding and lighting to provide luxurious comfort to visitors.

Thesis Statement

A built environment that aims to enhance sustainable design and environmental responsibility has the potential to positively affect users and and improve their wellbeing as well as to improve the surrounding city in efforts to provide a progressive future.

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GOALS + OBJECTIVES. 1

Create a sustainable and eco-friendly environment for guests

Design will meet four of the seven Living Building Challenge categories. These categories will include Water, Health and Happiness, Energy, and Materials.

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Develop cohesive branding throughout the hotel

Create a logo that can easily be recognized and incorporate that logo within all aspects of the design.

Use a concise color palette and an appealing logo to pull visitors inside.

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Create a design that reflects the local surrounding area and environment

Use gathered knowledge and research on Singapore to make smart design decisions in regards to location and how that should be represented. .

Accurately and respectively represent Singapore’s culture within the design as well as give the design a sense of place and connectivity to the surrounding community.

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Create an environment that represents wellness and a calm atmosphere

Achieve calmness and wellness through sound insulation, natural daylight, and circadian rhythm.

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Create multiple public communal areas allowing for a connection between visitors and locals, ultimately providing guests with an immerse traveling experience.

Create spaces that are communal when you first enter the hotel where guests and members of the community can converse. These communal areas include information on things to do around Singapore and will educate guests , providing them with an elevated experience.

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SITE ANALYSIS + INSPIRATION.

SITE ANALYSIS. Location: Marina Bay Neighborhood, Singapore Address: 70 #01-05 Collyer Quay, Customs House, Singapore 049323 Neighborhood Population: 41,510 City Population: 5.8 Million City Area: 277 Square Miles

Collyer Quay is a road in Dowtown Core, Singapore and is situated adjacent to Marina Bay. The site is located right on the water allowing for views of the Marina Bay. By being located right on the water, the site does not back up to any other infrastructure, allowing for a un-interrupted view and plenty of natural daylight, adding to the sustainable qualities that make up this hotel.

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INSPIRATION.

The design of Hotel 541 is inspired by the 541 foot tall Singapore Flyer that is located within the Marina Bay Neighborhood and acts as a landmark within the local area. The observation wheel provides a 360 degree visual experience to locals and visitors, representing vertical circulation and the idea of a strong central core. The design of the observation wheel informs the materiality chosen for Hotel 541.

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CONCEPT & PROCESS.

CONCEPT STATEMENT.

The inspiration behind this hotel is the Singapore Flyer, located near the project’s site in Marina Bay, Singapore. This 541 foot tall Ferris wheel provides locals and tourists with a 360 degree view of Singapore’s skyline. It serves as Asia’s largest observation wheel that occupies a prominent place in Singapore’s city center. When looking at the movement and positioning of a Ferris wheel, it rotates about a central axis allowing the visual experience of the user to constantly be moving in a continuous motion. The wheel serves as vertical circulation within the city core of Singapore as well as a landmark for the city. This design takes a similar approach and role as a Ferris wheel and the Singapore Flyer by incorporating a monumental staircase that acts as the core and central axis for the hotel. Similar to how the Singapore Flyer is a landmark for the city, the staircase is a landmark for the hotel. The staircase provides circulation on all four floors and connects the hotel vertically. Each floor branches off the central staircase informing this circulation, providing guests with a visual experience. A similar experience of observation is employed through the use of an open to below wrapped around the central axis along with an observation lounge placed on each floor that mimics the passenger cars that rotate upright, allowing visitors and locals to observe from each floor similar to how they might observe the city on the Singapore Flyer as the cars rise in height.

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PARTI + DIAGRAM

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PROCESS WORK.

Layering of Four Levels

Projected Curved Facade

Winter Solstice

Pre- Existing Structural Forms

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Main Entrance

Summer Solstice

Process Sketches

Initial Observation Lounge Diagram

Observation #4 Observation #3 Observation #2 Observation #1

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Observation Lounge 2

MONUMENTAL STAIR AXON

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Bar

MONUMENTAL STAIR.

The staircase acts as a core for the hotel and is positioned at the center informing circulation. In addition, it provides vertical circulation and connects all four floors of the hotel and can be viewed from all four levels. As the guest rises in height, making their way up to each floor, it mimics the upward rotation of the passenger carts on the Singapore Flyer. This monumental staircase improves the wellness of guests by using the intriguing design to attract guests and encourage them to actively move instead of taking the elevator. The form and build of the stairs includes sustainble materials such as glass and metal that are locally sourced.

The glass and metal materials of the staircase were inspired by the construction of the Singapore Flyer, and the transparency and metal details that it entails.

MONUMENTAL STAIR + OBSERVATION LOUNGE SECTION

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SCHEMATIC FLOOR PLANS.

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Level 1 NTS 1

Reception

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Restrooms

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Restaurant

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Laundry

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Kitchen

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Staff Offices

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Lounge

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Business Center

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Bar

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Observation Lounge

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Guestroom 1

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Communal Pantry

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Guestroom 2

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Game Room

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Suite

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Laundry

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Guestroom 3

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Fitness Room

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Lounge

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Observation Lounge

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Guestroom 1

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Guestroom 2

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Game Room

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Guestroom 3

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Fitness Room

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Lounge

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Observation Lounge

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Guestroom 1

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Spa

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Guestroom 2

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Sauna

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Suite

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Dipping Pool

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Guestroom 3

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Lounge

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HOTEL SPACES.

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LOBBY. Sustainable Considerations Locally sourced materials are used throughout the hotel lobby. LED lights are installed within the design to increase energy efficiency and allow for long-lasting lighting. This has allowed Hotel 541 to cut energy consumption by over 80%.

Branding Located behind the reception desk is the hotel logo. This provides identity to the space when guests first enter, and it creates and instant first impression that will allow the branding of the hotel to become recognizable right away.

Wellness The Hotel 541 lobby contains operable windows that provide access to fresh air and daylight to increase the health and happiness of guests. Circadian Rhythm lighting is installed above the reception desk to enhance the wellbeing of both the hotel guests and employees.

Key Plan

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OBSERVATION LOUNGE 1 + STAIRCASE. Sustainable Considerations LED lighting and Scraplight pendants, made of FSC-certified paper sourced from forests, serve as sustainable products located on the first floor adding to the overall environmentally friendly design of the observation lounge. Windows line the lounge providing views of nature and an intake of natural daylight.

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BAR + LOUNGE.

Design Considerations The bar stools seen in this rendering were used to mimic the upward circular motion and round shape of the Singapore Flyer. Custom built nook seating was designed in order to include a similar feeling as sitting in the passenger cart on a ferris wheel. The design allows for the guest to feel enclosed similar to a passenger cart, but provides transparency by using the glass material. The ceiling mirrors the seating in order to create a symmetrical and balanced design.

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RESTAURANT. Design Considerations A custom built metal ceiling structure is placed over the dining/lounge area within the restaurant in order to capture the metal characteristics of the ferris wheel. This ceiling structure allows the space to become strongly defined and contributes to zoning for the design of the hotel. It helps to frame the overall space as well as providing guests with privacy. The restaurant is placed to the far left of the building in order to have access to the windows promotiing daylight and city views.

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OBSERVATION LOUNGE. Sustainable Considerations LED lighting and Scraplight pendants, made of FSCcertified paper sourced from forests, serve as sustainable products. The paint chosen contains no VOC’s allowing for improved air quality, and it benefits the overall health of the guests and employees. In addition, each guestroom or suite is keyless entry allowing for the use of less plastic.

Design Considerations The second observation lounge is located on the second floor opposite the side of the first observation lounge. It is placed adjacent to the transparent monumental staircase allowing guests to obtain a visual experience through the use of the locally sourced glass material creating a “lookout spot” that surrounds the staircase on each level. Guests are able to view both the staircase and the spaces surrounding it.

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SAUNA.

Sustainable Considerations The design is made up of a renewable and reusable wooden material and solar air heaters. The wood allows for thermal efficacy and 20% less energy consumption. The solar air heaters reduce the electricity consumption and are not harmful to the environment. Locally sourced insulated stone is incorporated and has a beneficial effect on the lifespan of the heating elements.

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FINISHES & FURNITURE.

MATERIALS. The material pallette was inspired by the colors of the sky as well as the metal and transparent characteristics of the ferris wheel. The material choices are kept airy and light to represent floating in the sky, and bright pops of orange are added to build contrast and provide a complimentary color to the sky blue. Patterns within the material pallette represent the static and flowing movement of clouds within the sky and the movement of the ferris wheel. All materials are locally sourced.

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FURNITURE.

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SANCAL Remnant Fabric armchair with armrests

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WEST ELM Cosmo Side Table

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Herman Miller I Beam Coffee Table

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SANCAL Totem Upholstered steel stool with footrest

The furniture within Hotel 541 represents and symbolizes the circular, floating motion of the Singapore Flyer and its glass and metal charateristics. Each furniture piece has a floating appearence and is very light and airy mimicing the feeling of being up in the air/sky.

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BRANDING.

BRANDING.

The idea behind the logo for Hotel 541 stems from the total height of the Singapore Flyer. The logo is made up of the numbers 5,4, and 1 representing the total height of the observation wheel that is equivalent to 541 feet. The number “5” is smaller and the number “4” and “1” gradually get taller, symbolizing the rising height and continuous change in the users’ visual experience.

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541 Reception Desk Feature Wall

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SOURCES.

Inspiration Images https://unsplash.com/

Materials https://www.materialbank.com/statID=G_ADS?utm_source=google&utm_ medium=CPC&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4ImEBhDFARIsAGOTMj8g73roHiQqvCN_waP5b_2a_ yBoYncdKIWBvdBCt_Fg1mx8emhsDMQaAvktEALw_wcB

Furniture https://www.hermanmiller.com/resources/images/i-beam-coffee-table/88d0e16b-8206-4809-9699f399e4b45d30/ https://www.westelm.com/products/cosmo-side-table-antique-brass-h4029/

https://www.archiproducts.com/en/shop?ads=brand&gadsid=986960855&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4ImEBhDFARIsA GOTMj-Y2CWohPd_krYXGUx805Cb677_Wu-cWx7WSQS-QNblWbHJeAI7RiAaAi-ZEALw_wcB

Other https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/58c8/f60d8fa940a97be988a254d46a114861f908.pdf

https://living-future.org/lbc/

http://www2.harvia.fi/files/document_pdf/39072/Sauna%20guide_EN.pdf

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