project14:Styling
Styling
Colour identity
The sails of the Veni-Vidi hotel determine the exterior- and interiorview. People compare it with a sea anemone or a lampion. All sails of the spheres have a different colour, which gives everyone of them an unique identity. Identity is needed, especially if the spheres want to be used as houses or as offices in the future. I think it's interesting to see small buildings spread over the rdm-area, because they float like water candles between other projects. Adding colour and happiness.
Collapsable wall
Because every hotelsphere has 4 collapsable walls, every sphere can have a more open floorplan. The buildings can be used for big expositions or a open offices in this way (click on right image). The walls can also be partly open, by disassembling panels. The wallpanels have the same diamond-honeylike pattern, as the outer 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 possiblity to increase the floorcapacity (from 200 m2 to 400 m2 per sphere) 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 with the slabs.
Framing
The building has a rounded glass ceiling, so more of the interesting parametric RDM-site is visible than through a conventional window. 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 designed within the closed diamond-shaped facadepanels. I implemented them on the closed facade panels, to give the facade an extra look, from the inside and outside. It's also smart to have 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. 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.
An office in the Veni-Vidi sphere