project14:Styling
Styling
Colour identity
The sails of the Veni-Vidi hotel determine the view from the outside. People compare it with a sea anemone or a lampion. All spheres have a different colour, because this gives every sphere a unique identity. I think it's interesting to see the buildings spread over the rdm-area. Because they float like water candles between other projects. Identity is needed, especially if the spheres want to be used as houses or offices in the future.
Collapsable wall
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Because the hotelrooms have a collapsable wall, the hotel can be turned into a more open-plan-builing. The building can be used for big expositions in this way (click on right image). The wall can be partly opened and partly closed easily. The wall has the same diamon-honeylike print, as the facade.
Moving slabs
Almost 70 percent of all the slabs can move up and down. When the slabs are down, the perception of the room gets bigger, and this contributes to the esthetic effect of the sails. Another reason for these moving slabs is the increase of floorcapacity when needed (click on the middle image to see an office underneath the slabs). When all building are clustered, there is also an ability to form one big stair.
Framing
The building has a rounded glass ceiling, so more of the interesting parametric RDM-site is visible. The shower of the hotelroom has a skylight, so the stars can be seen from out of the hotelroom and the shower.
Lights and door
The lights are situated within the closed diamond-shaped facadepanels. I implemented them on the closed facade panels, to give to facade an interesting look, from the inside and outside. It's also easy to have a lights fixated in a building that can change form easily. If not, the building can get messy with wires. I chose to express the same shape of the facade in the collapsable wall as well. But the collapsable wall has closed panels in the honeyshaped panels and a highly reflective material in the diamondshaped panel. This is the reverse of the facade.
