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The Godfrey Hotel
The Godfrey Hotel
Chicago, IL, United States
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Project of the Day on Apr 14, 2015
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Other Projects by Valerio Dewalt Train
The Godfrey Hotel
Chicago, IL, United States
Project Featured on Apr 08, 2015
Project of the Day on Apr 14, 2015
Firm
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2014
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
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This was the first new hotel constructed by Oxford Properties, which updated a number of existing hotels in downtown Chicago. We proposed a research effort that began with surveys of their existing database of guests. This effort focused on what was successful, but also identified unmet needs by asking the question ‘what was missing that the guest found at other hotels around the country?’
The data was synthesized into a guest profile with the intent to identify a small sample of the traveling population who would just “die” to stay at the Godfrey. The key was to understand the importance of human variability in this equation. Every room had to be exceptional, but for very different reasons.
One-story-high steel trusses span across the full width of the building and are staggered from one floor to the next. Precast planks span from the top chord of one truss to the bottom chord of another truss on the floor above. The depth of the trusses had significant residual strength to support a cantilever. The result is a hotel where the depth from the corridor to the exterior wall varies dramatically, creating 26 different room types for the 216 rooms. In addition, the long-span trusses produced large areas of column-free space on the fourth level for the public rooms.
Visually, the hotel defies gravity. It is purposely ambiguous as it weaves its way into the sky. The trusses are expressed to reassure the guests that there is something there, holding the building up. But most importantly, the Godfrey is an expression of human variability — within weeks of opening, returning guests were already requesting specific rooms. Each guest has a unique experience at the Godfrey; it is to die for.
The data was synthesized into a guest profile with the intent to identify a small sample of the traveling population who would just “die” to stay at the Godfrey. The key was to understand the importance of human variability in this equation. Every room had to be exceptional, but for very different reasons.
One-story-high steel trusses span across the full width of the building and are staggered from one floor to the next. Precast planks span from the top chord of one truss to the bottom chord of another truss on the floor above. The depth of the trusses had significant residual strength to support a cantilever. The result is a hotel where the depth from the corridor to the exterior wall varies dramatically, creating 26 different room types for the 216 rooms. In addition, the long-span trusses produced large areas of column-free space on the fourth level for the public rooms.
Visually, the hotel defies gravity. It is purposely ambiguous as it weaves its way into the sky. The trusses are expressed to reassure the guests that there is something there, holding the building up. But most importantly, the Godfrey is an expression of human variability — within weeks of opening, returning guests were already requesting specific rooms. Each guest has a unique experience at the Godfrey; it is to die for.
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