Concept
A mall, hotel wing, towers and an office bar on a sloping site of about 132 × 52 m, coordinated in one Revit model.
Build Sequence
A 1.0 m raft and 400 mm tanked retaining walls hold two basement levels in a sloping site: the street is at LG, the service road at GF.
404 RC columns on a grid with 9.5 m main bays carry 280 mm flat slabs with drop panels. Three RC cores brace the building; steel frames carry the crowns and bridges.
Every system modelled and connected: chilled water from 5 roof chillers to 197 fan coil units, 2,649 sprinklers, drainage by gravity to the street.
Three facades on one podium: bronze-framed hotel rooms, a glazed office bar with bronze fins, Galala limestone clinics, under a bronze louvre crown.
With the roofs cut away 1.4 m above the fifth floor, the top floor shows: hotel rooms in the east tower, offices in the bar, clinics in the west tower. The food and beverage terraces sit lower, on the first floor.
The office bar from the main street, between palms; the hotel tower's bronze frames on the right.
The street front: the lower-ground shops, the plaza above and the office bar behind its palms.
The raised plaza: a bronze kiosk and olive trees in limestone planters, the hotel tower behind.
The food and beverage gallery: a bronze kiosk and the restaurant terraces along the plaza.
A café terrace in the shade of the podium.
The hotel tower over the restaurant terrace umbrellas.
The hotel tower's bronze frames over the shops and the first-floor terraces.
Study
Nero marble with one bronze picture frame per room, 1.35 m deep: a recessed balcony or vertical louvres, alternating floor by floor. 64 frames around the 40 keys on the second to fifth floors.
One bronze frame per room: louvres or a recessed balcony, alternating floor by floor.
A-202 · South elevation: the hotel tower between grids 12 and 13, L02 to L03
A-502 · Detail D2: the hotel facade at L03, 1:20
Study
Storey-height glass, bronze fins of 60 × 440 mm on a 1583 mm module, 500 × 925 mm pilasters on every grid line and Nero spandrels: 5,101 curtain-wall panels and 8,888 mullions and fins.
Looking up from the plaza: bronze-framed windows, glass between limestone pilasters, lit restaurant fronts.
A-202 · South elevation: the office bar's curtain wall
A-502 · Detail D3: the office curtain wall at L03, 1:20
One model, three layers: the hotel tower and podium from the street corner, the bronze envelope giving way to the concrete frame and the services that run the building.
Concrete frame, steel crown: the hotel tower's structure, with a column, drop panel and flat slab from the reinforcement sheets.
Three trades, no hard clashes: in this slice of the hotel tower, 0 hard clashes between mechanical, electrical and plumbing, or between services and frame, across 25,493 elements. Insulation added after the clash rounds still touches a neighbour at 59 spots (4–22 mm): the next clearance pass.
The building pulled apart storey by storey, from the basement to the roof, each storey lifted 6 m (a view setting in Revit: nothing moves in the model).
A 7.5 m slice through the hotel tower, from the second floor to the roof: rooms, the corridor ceiling with its fan coil units and ducts, bathroom heaters, the chillers above, the bronze frames outside.
The third-floor hotel corridor ceiling, where every trade meets: sprinkler and chilled water mains, the cable tray, supply air and the branches into each room.
The basement pump room: two split-case fire pumps (63 L/s at 11.5 bar each, one electric, one diesel), the jockey pump, the domestic water booster and the motor control centre.
Portfolio model, not for construction.
A-311 · Wall section, hotel tower east facade
S-502 · Reinforcement: column, drop panel and flat slab
FP-501 · Fire pump duty, pressures and settings
CS-301 · Service risers C1 to C3
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