19MAR 2012
© Tom Wiscombe Design It is located near the Beijing International Airport in the 5th Ring, and will be used to host international conferences.
© Tom Wiscombe Design The building is 303 meters long and is intended to become a major landmark, visible to landing aircraft.
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The building is organized around three volumetric rings fused together by surfaces draped from the top and bottom, fused at a sharp edge.
© Tom Wiscombe Design The rings create atriums which are enclosed by ETFE domes, housing a 10,000 m2 interior rainforest as well as the conference center and hotel amenities.
© Tom Wiscombe Design Rooms, radiating out along each ring, are oriented both outwards and inwards, creating views out to the city as well as down into the rainforest.
© Tom Wiscombe Design The droop of the rings towards the perimeter of the building also allows views outward from the interiors of the rings.
© Tom Wiscombe Design Structural bays are flexible and can be broken down into standard, business suite, and presidential types.
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© Tom Wiscombe Design A sky restaurant is located at the highest level of the building, with views out to the city in all directions.
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The enclosure of the building is a double skin system where the outer layer is a weather break and the inner layer is the weatherproof enclosure.
© Tom Wiscombe Design This creates a thermal buffer zone as well as the freedom to design a freeform pattern of apertures unrelated to the relentless horizontality of the hotel floor plates.
© Tom Wiscombe Design The outer skin is supported by a lightweight cable-net structure which is stabilized by large tension rings affixed at the top and perimeter of the building.
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The skin is also embedded with a second system of solar thermal pipes and grey water capture grooves which hybridizes the base diamond pattern with a sporadic weaving pattern.
© Tom Wiscombe Design Driven by our long-time interest in complex biological systems, structure, skin, and thermal systems are interwoven in such a way that they cannot be reduced back to their parts.
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Beijing National Hotel / Tom Wiscombe Design
Posted in Architecture - Hotel by Tom Wiscombe | Tags: China, Parametric
At 1,500 rooms, this hotel will be the largest hotel in Beijing.































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