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The Devonian
Louisville, KY, United States
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The Devonian
Louisville, KY, United States
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10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
pod architecture + design (pod a+d), an award-winning design firm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, together with visionary real estate developer Gill Holland of Louisville, Kentucky, have revealed plans for "The Devonian," a 17,000-square-foot, post-pandemic, community hotel in Louisville's historic Portland neighborhood designed to serve local residents as well as travelers.
Unlike standard hotels and motels whose amenities are strictly for paying guests, Holland's hospitality venture aims to include the Portland and greater Louisville area with indoor/outdoor spaces for community and special events.
Along with the 25 small guest rooms, the Devonian will offer a heated courtyard swimming pool, a rooftop deck where Portland-based non-profits can host fundraisers, and easy access to arts and entertainment venues.
Like most motels and motor lodges along the nation's highways, The Devonian's rooms will have open-air access rather than interior hallways, and an open, accessible lobby. Rooms overlooking the pool will face inward to provide privacy for guests and adjacent neighbors.
Established in 1811, Portland is an urban neighborhood northwest of downtown Louisville, located on the Falls of the Ohio River. Fossils discovered at the Falls date back 400 million years to the geological Devonian Period, an interval of the Paleozoic Era. Holland named his new-concept hotel "The Devonian" to honor that source of neighborhood pride.
Following Holland's lead, pod a+d partners Douglas Pierson, AIA, and designer Youn Choi used abstractions of the fossil forms found in the area to establish tectonic geometries in the building itself: The exposed structure will feature geometric shapes and patterns visible in the corals discovered in the Ohio River's limestone bed.
The Devonian's specific context is also reflected in the architecture. Located at the threshold between Portland's iconic warehouse/commercial district to the east and residential neighborhoods to the west, the building's rugged modernist form, devoid of ornamentation, suggests the raw feel of an industrial warehouse while the glass-enclosed lobby and open roof deck recall porches and breezeways among Portland's historic homes.
Unlike standard hotels and motels whose amenities are strictly for paying guests, Holland's hospitality venture aims to include the Portland and greater Louisville area with indoor/outdoor spaces for community and special events.
Along with the 25 small guest rooms, the Devonian will offer a heated courtyard swimming pool, a rooftop deck where Portland-based non-profits can host fundraisers, and easy access to arts and entertainment venues.
Like most motels and motor lodges along the nation's highways, The Devonian's rooms will have open-air access rather than interior hallways, and an open, accessible lobby. Rooms overlooking the pool will face inward to provide privacy for guests and adjacent neighbors.
Established in 1811, Portland is an urban neighborhood northwest of downtown Louisville, located on the Falls of the Ohio River. Fossils discovered at the Falls date back 400 million years to the geological Devonian Period, an interval of the Paleozoic Era. Holland named his new-concept hotel "The Devonian" to honor that source of neighborhood pride.
Following Holland's lead, pod a+d partners Douglas Pierson, AIA, and designer Youn Choi used abstractions of the fossil forms found in the area to establish tectonic geometries in the building itself: The exposed structure will feature geometric shapes and patterns visible in the corals discovered in the Ohio River's limestone bed.
The Devonian's specific context is also reflected in the architecture. Located at the threshold between Portland's iconic warehouse/commercial district to the east and residential neighborhoods to the west, the building's rugged modernist form, devoid of ornamentation, suggests the raw feel of an industrial warehouse while the glass-enclosed lobby and open roof deck recall porches and breezeways among Portland's historic homes.
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