Abstract:
Throughout my architectural education, I have been exposed to a variety of building types. The building type I have chosen for this project is a luxury hotel on the banks of Biscayne Bay on the south side of Miami, Florida. This hotel is thoroughly inclusive as any four star hotel one might find pre-existing on the long stretches of oceanfront that Florida possesses. By studying these pre-existing hotels in their context, their historical significance, the designer's intentions and concepts, and ultimately their final outcomes, I hope to gain knowledge into a portion of the field of architecture that I had not studied so specifically in the past. I hope to then be able to use this knowledge of existing hotels and apply it to a new development on Biscayne Bay. This development will give me the opportunity to explore the design process of a large program that I have not been involved in before and also a unique, yet distinctly appropriate area for such a development.
