A Competitive Plan for a Five Star Kish Hotel, Behrouz Mansouri

Project Name: A Competitive Plan for a Five Star Kish Hotel
Function: Hotel
Architect: Behrouz Mansouri / Design Office: Emaratkhorshid Consulting Engineers
Project Collaborators: Negar Nabavi Tabatabai, Hiva Mansouri, Ashkan Davoodi, Mohammad Ahmadi, Arjang Ashkiani, Parasto Rostami
3D Modeling: Niloufar Saei, Pedram Alambeiki
Animation: Mohsen Malek
Client: Armitaj Investment Company (Shahram Hadadi)
Website: www.emaratkhorshid.com

This project has been done with the approach of hotel and accommodation complex in two phases according to the site coordinates and climatic and indigenous considerations of Kish Island. While observing the restrictions of access and criteria, we predicted the mass formation and future development of the surrounding areas in terms of vision and perspective on a large scale. (Each phase can have an independent function and form influenced by the main idea.
-Location of the site and surrounding uses, placed on a residential scale and urban services in combination with the hotel building that emphasis the mission of this project.
– The concept of travel and temporary residence has been selected as the historical model of this project based on an interpretation of the Iranian caravanserai.
– Based on this, the creation of a central courtyard in two separate joints for executive phasing and independent use in two axes influenced by the geographical direction and geometry of the site has been formed.
– The upper part of the building, the courtyards that connected to the main courtyard, emphasizes climatic considerations and the pattern of Iranian architecture, it also has provided a hierarchy from open space to semi-open and closed space.
– In addition, in order to maintain the indigenous and contemporary architectural pattern of the island, vertical elements with radiation performance and emphasis on rhythm and repetition in the facade walls have been used.
– The general considerations of the plan in urban scale and architecture can be listed as follows.
Urban considerations:
• Observing the hierarchy of urban accesses to set up riding entrances to the site.
Creating a pedestrian axis between the two main fronts of the project, emphasizing the relationship between urban and neighborhood uses.
• Predicting multi-functional urban space at the intersection of the main thoroughfares of the site. • Utilizing the slope of sidewalks to communicate between the levels of the floors related to the passages of the site. • Separation of internal pedestrian accesses by observing the hierarchy of public to private areas. • Emphasis on creating an urban sign.
Architectural considerations: • Interpretation of native and traditional Iranian architectural patterns. • Reference to the formal model of the caravanserai in order to placement and hierarchy of spaces. • Predicting the construction of the project in two separate phases. while the independence of the first phase, in the second phase, there is the same architectural identity in the continuity of the final design. • Utilization of vertical shades to control vision and light and also the continuation of the typology of late buildings of Kish Island. • Observing structural considerations based on the modulation of residential spaces in height