암스테르담 도시재개발 프로젝트 선 상에 위치한 사성급 호텔,
플레쳐 호텔은 암스테르담의 새로운 관문으로 랜드마크화 된다.
60미터 원통형 호텔 플랜은 중심부에 코어를 기점으로 컴팩트한
객실부가 원주를 그리며 배치된다. 이와같은 플랜의 엘리베이션은
저층부터 연속되는 커튼월 시스템으로 외부의 글래스 파사드와
내부의 다양한 원형 패턴-블루 원형 패턴과 원형 창문-으로 디자인된 패널로 이루어 진다.
이러한 파사드 디자인은 플레쳐 호텔만의 아이텐티한 디자인으로
외부로는 암스테르담의 하늘을 투영, 내부로는 객실로 유입되는 직사광선을
효과적으로 차단하는 기능적 효과를 가져온다.
특히 외부 글래스와 블루 패널 사이에 설치된 led조명은 야간시
호텔을 더욱더 드라마틱한 오브제로 형상화 시키며
호텔의 랜드마크를 배가 시키는 효과를 가져온다.
reviewed by SJ
In development area of Amstel III, situated on Amsterdam’s southeast
side, Meibergdreef lane is currently being re-developed into an urban
axis. This re development constituted the catalyst for the construction
of a four-star hotel, just across a present food strip. The hotel is
located as closely as possible to the flanking highway A2. On approach
from the south, the volume recognisably marks the entrance to Amsterdam.
Architects: Benthem Crouwel Architects
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project Team: Jan Benthem, Peter Kropp, Okke van den Broek, Pieter Rijpstra, Volker Krenz
Project Management: M. Caransa b.v
Area: 7,000 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Jannes Linders, Michael van Oosten
Structural Engineering: Van Rossum Raadgevende Ingenieurs, Amsterdam
Building Services Engineering: Wichers & Dreef, Badhoevedorp
Interior Design: Robert Kolenik, Amsterdam
Building Physics: moBius consult, Driebergen
The 60 meter high hotel has a compact floor plan with a diameter of merely 24 meters, resulting in a characteristic slim silhouette alongside the highway. The objective to create an omnidirectional structure, with an expressive façade and a compact footprint, has resulted in a circular plan with a central core for elevators, stairs and service shafts. The limited space is used as efficiently as possible. The technical stem is girded by the main functions on every floor. Service areas and technical spaces are situated in the basement, in the pedestal or on the roof. The lobby and coffee shop are situated on ground floor. 120 rooms encircle the staircase and lifts in the heart of the hotel. On floor sixteen, five board rooms have been arrange in a manner that allows them to be linked together. The so-called ‘Skyrestaurant Pi’, on the top and eighteenth floor, just as well as ‘Skylounge Pi’ on the floor below, offer guests impressive 360° panoramic views over Amsterdam.
Parking spaces at ground level are integrated in the landscape under a vegetation covered roof, well blending in with the surroundings. Additional underground parking for 60 cars is offered. The hotel will soon receive the highest hallmark for sustainability and corporate responsibility for organisations in the recreation sector, the Green Key Gold. Among others, building-related aspects as the application of a subterranean thermal storage system and top level façade insulation have led to this distinction.
The fully glazed façade with its bend screens and round windows yields a distinctive, autonomous and yet restrained transparent appearance of the building, in its surroundings. The architecture of the neighbouring food strip is reflected in the circular motif in the hotel’s façade pattern. Blue colourings and shaded frittings provide a prominent outer shell to the building. Concurrently, by using this colour palette, the façade interacts powerfully with the sky.
The outer shell of printed glass screens is mounted approximately 90cm off a solid lightweight inner façade with integrated fixed windows. The transparent shell has a noise reduction function. The cavity between the façades is used for accent lighting. The circular motif is applied on both shells of the building. The blue tinted patterns re-appear as frittings on the laminated glass, and create depth in the façade. On the façade of the pedestal, where the entrance and coffee shop are situated, curved clear glass is mounted. The building is illuminated at night by the hotel room’s windows and by light fixtures applied between the façade shells. Hence, the Fletcher Hotel is distinctly visible and identifiable in its surroundings, even after sunset.
The main structure of the hotel is a combination of in-situ concrete and a steel construction. The concrete core provides the stability. To this, the steel construction is hung, at the location of the partition walls of the hotel rooms and on all floor levels linked with the intermediate precast concrete floors. The roof of the top floor, a technical room, is made out of steel. The supporting structure of the car park consists of concrete retaining walls and steel columns; the roof of hollow core floor slabs.
from archdaily