DESA1002 'Continuous City' <Minh Nhat Ngo>

Abstract

This building was designed for Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia. It is a 5 storey Hotel located on the main street facing the waterfront with multiple functions including a restaurant/bar on ground floor, a thermal bath and massage area on first floor and an outdoor pool on the third floor. The first floor (4.8 x 4.8m) has smaller rooms with 4 bedrooms. The second floor (4.8 x 5.6m) and third floor has 4 larger rooms (4.8 x 6m. The top floor has 2 presidential suites (8.4 x 8m) consisting a separate bedroom, a lounge room and a mini-bar. The design concept of this building is to design a hotel that has multiple functions with comfortable spaces and views of the waterfront. The buildings construction uses concrete, tinted glass for windows with reinforced concrete structures. The structure consists of circular columns on slabs with loadbearing walls on the northern side for the stairs and lifts. Large columns are used for all levels under the pool area. The whole front façade of the building is covered with tinted glass with the mirrored side on the exterior so guests can have their privacy in their rooms as well as having the full view of the water. The south façade has no windows except for the restaurant area on ground level and at the ends of the corridors on other levels. The back façade has coloured circular glazed openings that repeatedly run along the walls horizontally which creates a colourful effect on the internal walls and has the opposite effect on the outside during the night.