SPACE PLANNING LAYOUT

I have worked out the placement of the stairs in my design and for the circulation patterns established on the 2nd-8th floors for the hotel guest rooms and suites. Based on the layout, I have 5 WOW suites, 9 fantastic suites, and about 195 guest rooms (called Wonderful Room and Sepctacular Room). By spatial breakdown, there are only 11 suites required within the hotel's square footage, but I wanted to accomodate a few more. The suites are located on the second and eight floors of the hotel. The second floor suites were placed on this floor to accomodate business travelers attending a convention within the hotels conferencing facilities. The 3rd through 7th floors are designated for typical guest rooms, some of which provide views into the interior courtyard, the city or towards the river facing Third Street.


I have also done some re-configuring of the space. I moved the location of the stairwell to meet the code (1/2 theh distance of the longest diagonal). I also located the drop off point near the front of the hotel facing Laurel Street. I eliminated the parking garage that currently exists; however, there is a parking lot adjacent to building the could be purchased and form a larging parking complex for the hotel. It would also be an extra source of revenue for the hotel if the parking was paid for occupants not staying at the hotel.

For this week, I am going to work on incorporating the service elevators into the space so that the kitchen and laundry facilities have convenient access to the service elevators and the service elevator lobby. I may also move the vending area to where the three Wonderful Rooms are located on the left of the guest elevators so that it can hold two vending machines and recyclsing equipment to meet the LEED Credit that is applicable to implement recycling storage containers in the hotel.

The plan is to finish the space planning over the weekend and into the early portion of next week. Once this process is completed, then I will be able to put the spaces into a 3-d rendering program and dedicate a great amount of time to my perspectives. I am also coordinating with Chris Bankston about the LEED Credits that I wish to acheive for my hotel.

The following images are of the space plan and blocking models of all the floors.

1st Floorplan (includes 4 retails spaces, the interior courtyard, the hotel lobby, and the hotel back of house functions).


2nd Floorplan
3rd -7th Floorplan
8th Floorplan