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Site Analysis

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Building Typologies

1.  Which building typology you are researching?
  
"The building typologies I'm researching are Commercial Buildings and Transport Buildings."

2.  Why are you researching this building typology?

"I’m researching those types of buildings because my home town is home to the five star Four Season’s Hotel and many other hotels. My home town Nevis is sister to St. Kitts, and many of our people travel via boat to and from work each day, so I would like to explore the inner workings and design of how transport building work."

3.  What is the specialty of this building type you would like to research i.e.   museum for dance, school for digital media… 

"The specialty of my building types I’m researching are Water front Hotels and Ferry Terminals."

4.  What are the examples that you will be researching… list the examples, location and architect  (10 examples)

Water Front Hotels:

The Yas Hotel

• Architects: Asymptote

• Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/43336/the-yas-hotel-asymptote

   

Four Seasons Hotel

• Architects: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

• Location: Manama, Bahrain

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/611777/som-s-expansive-four-seasons-hotel-opens-in-bahrain-bay

Hainan Blue Bay Westin Resort Hotel

• Architects: gad·Zhejiang Greenton Architectural Design

• Location: Lingshui, Hainan, China

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/556098/hainan-blue-bay-westin-resort-hotel-gad-zhejiang-greenton-architectural-design

Old Mill Hotel Belgrade

• Architects: GRAFT Architects

• Location: Bulevar vojvode Mišića, Beograd, Serbia

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/618428/old-mill-hotel-belgrade-graft-architects 

Stockholm Waterfront

• Architects: White arkitekter ab

• Location: Stockholm, Sweden 

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/114039/stockholm-waterfront-white-arkiteker-ab

Manama, Bahrain’s

Ferry Terminals:

Salerno Maritime Terminal

• Architects: Zaha Hadid Arcitects

• Location: Salerno, Italy

• Website: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/architecture/salerno-maritime-terminal/ 

 

Ferry Terminal

• Architects: Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

• Location: Stockholm, Sweden

• Website: http://www.dezeen.com/2010/08/27/ferry-terminal-by-c-f-m%C3%B8ller/ 

Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Terminal

• Architects: HMC Architects

• Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/97119/kaohsiung-port-and-cruise-service-terminal-competition-proposal-hmc-architects

 

ORDOS 100 #28

• Architects: F451 Arquitectura

• Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/30744/ferry-terminal-f451-arquitectura

 

Yokohama International Passenger Terminal

• Architects: Foreign Office Architects (FOA)
  

• Location: Osanbashi, Japan

• Website: http://www.archdaily.com/554132/ad-classics-yokohama-international-passenger-terminal-foreign-office-architects-foa

5.  What are your goals for working with this building type?

"My goals for these building types are to intertwine the major types of buildings, and make them work together beautifully with some sense of dependence between them."

6.  What are the program elements that you see included at this point in your building? (may  evolve once more research is done)

 "Some of the program elements that I see included at this point in your building are;
Lobby, Reception area, Conference room, Restaurant, Boating docks, Green spaces, Children play area..."