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Grand Central Hotel | Tampa Florida 03 Advanced Design B Dan Powers
[44] Grand Central Hotel | Mixed Use Advanced Design B | Fall 2012 Professor Dan Powers Full Semester
The Project intends to ground itself in the local community and offers a glimpse of Tampa’s Identity to the hotel patrons. The Grand Central Hotel is located at the intersection of Grand Central Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard. The site marks the western entrance to downtown Tampa. The proposal is a mixed use program of retail, parking (for the new and existing retail), a hotel with two hundred units and an elevated public green space. Tampa’s unique urban fabric calls for a smaller scale and sensitivity to the street condition. The project is intended activate the area west of the river and act as a catalyst for future development.
Initial Study Model
Primary Entry
Tower placement
Elevated park
Retail
Parking
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The Space Between | The Plan
The project is organized around an interior avenue that runs between the retail and hotel. This axis runs perpendicular to the primary public circulation that leads to the elevated park.
[48] Elevation Mapping
[50] Section Study
Tampa Skyline | The Entry
The tower is situated between two primary thoroughfares which creates an opportunity for the towers formal geometries to define the entry to downtown Tampa. The hotel program was broken down between the horizantal and vertical bars to allow for an elegant and slender tower to emerge. The east facades verticle extension was intented to offer a smaller scale as it touched the sky.
Garden Space
[A] Queen Room [B]
[52] Grand Central | Tampa, Florida The lower levels have focused the public density on the north, facing Grand Central boulevard.
Ground Retail
Tower Placement
2nd Level Elevated Park
Parking
[54] Grand Central | Tampa, Florida The upper floors house the pool, spa, recreational areas and hotel units. The elevated park and courtyard can be viewed from the pool deck and western units.
3rd Level
4th Level
[56] Lobby Interior
The Entry
The lobby is an elongated space that features a cafe, sports bar, retail and access to the western courtyard. The elevated park is accessed from a grand stair that reaches out to the street.
Elevated park access
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The Horizontal Juncture
The hotels organization is split between the horizontal and vertical portions of the project.
R O O M T Y P E
DeluxeSuite
DoubleQueen
PresidentialSuite
StandardKing
[60] Final Model [East Elevation ]
Vertical Gardens
entrty aperture
Horizontal living
Hotel Entry