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FALLSVIEW PLAZA HOTEL 30
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We were asked to develop the massing and façade design for a
proposed 30-story(436 room) hotel tower and concept design for the podium expansion
of the existing Fallsview Plaza Hotel property. With an approved tower floor
plan and schematic structural layout in place, the owner requested that only
minor modifications to the plan be considered. The irregular geometry of the
approved plan, a by-product of modifications made to preserve the adjacent Hilton
Hotel’s Fallsview view corridor, posed significant challenges to design effort.
The related podium design effort would be part of an ongoing design review of
the proposed new retail and entertainment program within the framework of the
approved “as-of-right” podium massing.
As
the new tower would be highly visible within the city skyline from multiple
directions, the proposed massing was critically important. The inherent
complexity of the plan geometry required a series of significant formal
gestures to produce a strong and identifiable form. The resolution of the tower
massing at the top was essential to our design. As the building is part of a
row of towers along Fallsview Blvd, the overall massing and specific design of
the roofline were considered essential to create a clear identity for the
tower. A number of limited yet significant modifications to the plan and
structure were made, particularly at the tower corners, to craft the tower form
into two distinct volumes, each defined by an opaque outer façade layer. The primary
volume layer was then extended up above the roofline to form a large canted
roof form that separates from the tower and slopes down towards the neighboring
tower to create a void at the roof.
Our
tower façade design was limited to the use of a modular pre-fabricated stucco
wall panel with an integral window and through-wall fancoil system. As such,
the repetitive rhythm of window apertures and the overall façade scale were
critical design issues to address. With the north and south shear walls essentially
defined as opaque layers, the east and west room-facades were designed as an articulated
infill. In order to mitigate the repetitive window pattern inherent in the
required room layout, a shifting pattern of light and dark vertical
floor-height panels was created. The typical aluminum window unit over louver
panel was set into the recessed 5’ wide dark-panel. The light-panels were
projected out to create a subtle texture highlighted by the color change. Maintaining
the window location, the modular façade panel was then shifted every two floors
to mitigate the typical floor-by-floor scale and highlight the alternating pattern.
The resulting design creates a dynamic rhythm on the east and west façades which
effectively reduces the visual weight of a mostly opaque infill wall captured
within the more static façade layers to the north and south.
The
new hotel tower is currently under construction in an approved 10-story(126
room) configuration along with the related podium expansion while the 30-story tower
design has been submitted for zoning approval and the required Peer Review
process.
proposed 30-story(436 room) hotel tower and concept design for the podium expansion
of the existing Fallsview Plaza Hotel property. With an approved tower floor
plan and schematic structural layout in place, the owner requested that only
minor modifications to the plan be considered. The irregular geometry of the
approved plan, a by-product of modifications made to preserve the adjacent Hilton
Hotel’s Fallsview view corridor, posed significant challenges to design effort.
The related podium design effort would be part of an ongoing design review of
the proposed new retail and entertainment program within the framework of the
approved “as-of-right” podium massing.
As
the new tower would be highly visible within the city skyline from multiple
directions, the proposed massing was critically important. The inherent
complexity of the plan geometry required a series of significant formal
gestures to produce a strong and identifiable form. The resolution of the tower
massing at the top was essential to our design. As the building is part of a
row of towers along Fallsview Blvd, the overall massing and specific design of
the roofline were considered essential to create a clear identity for the
tower. A number of limited yet significant modifications to the plan and
structure were made, particularly at the tower corners, to craft the tower form
into two distinct volumes, each defined by an opaque outer façade layer. The primary
volume layer was then extended up above the roofline to form a large canted
roof form that separates from the tower and slopes down towards the neighboring
tower to create a void at the roof.
Our
tower façade design was limited to the use of a modular pre-fabricated stucco
wall panel with an integral window and through-wall fancoil system. As such,
the repetitive rhythm of window apertures and the overall façade scale were
critical design issues to address. With the north and south shear walls essentially
defined as opaque layers, the east and west room-facades were designed as an articulated
infill. In order to mitigate the repetitive window pattern inherent in the
required room layout, a shifting pattern of light and dark vertical
floor-height panels was created. The typical aluminum window unit over louver
panel was set into the recessed 5’ wide dark-panel. The light-panels were
projected out to create a subtle texture highlighted by the color change. Maintaining
the window location, the modular façade panel was then shifted every two floors
to mitigate the typical floor-by-floor scale and highlight the alternating pattern.
The resulting design creates a dynamic rhythm on the east and west façades which
effectively reduces the visual weight of a mostly opaque infill wall captured
within the more static façade layers to the north and south.
The
new hotel tower is currently under construction in an approved 10-story(126
room) configuration along with the related podium expansion while the 30-story tower
design has been submitted for zoning approval and the required Peer Review
process.
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