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Hotel GDL
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Our proposal for the hotel in Guadalajara is inspired by the character of its unique setting and the broader importance of its location in the historic center of the city. The form of the hotel’s components is evocative of the vernacular local architecture, Luis Barragan’s approach to Modern architecture, and the Maison de Verre in Paris, France.
The porous and elegant form of Hotel GDL is borne of a desire to create a meeting place for locals, tourists and guests. The arcades that surround the base of the structure mimic the adjacent buildings and filter the transition from the energetic street life to the hotel, the restaurant and the open atrium. The open atrium was designed with a performance space for musical events, art exhibitions or social relaxation. The generous opening at the center of the building is also intended to provide passive sustainable elements of natural light and ventilation resembling the interior courtyards typical of the local style of buildings. The hotel’s interior courtyard and the void that extends to the sky act as a canvas for ephemeral and flexible programs that inhibit a multipurpose space flexible to time, space and interactivity.
The scale and proportion of the façade’s articulation complement similar lines of massing in the nearby neoclassical buildings, and the semi-transparent interior facades will catch a variety of light reflections. With lightness and transparency in mind, the skin of the tower is a rich modular composition of clear, translucent, opaque and color.
Hotel GDL is a reflection of today’s postmodern theories related to flexible spaces and porous architecture to the site and context. But most importantly it is an exploration of solid and void, transparency and opaqueness, the rational and the intuitive, and an essay on composition.
The porous and elegant form of Hotel GDL is borne of a desire to create a meeting place for locals, tourists and guests. The arcades that surround the base of the structure mimic the adjacent buildings and filter the transition from the energetic street life to the hotel, the restaurant and the open atrium. The open atrium was designed with a performance space for musical events, art exhibitions or social relaxation. The generous opening at the center of the building is also intended to provide passive sustainable elements of natural light and ventilation resembling the interior courtyards typical of the local style of buildings. The hotel’s interior courtyard and the void that extends to the sky act as a canvas for ephemeral and flexible programs that inhibit a multipurpose space flexible to time, space and interactivity.
The scale and proportion of the façade’s articulation complement similar lines of massing in the nearby neoclassical buildings, and the semi-transparent interior facades will catch a variety of light reflections. With lightness and transparency in mind, the skin of the tower is a rich modular composition of clear, translucent, opaque and color.
Hotel GDL is a reflection of today’s postmodern theories related to flexible spaces and porous architecture to the site and context. But most importantly it is an exploration of solid and void, transparency and opaqueness, the rational and the intuitive, and an essay on composition.
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