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室内设计杂志 Simply Amazing Interior Design's Top 30 in Hospitality 3
Designing With Water 共4个酒店
Water Discus Hotel
When your base team consists of engineers, scientists, plus an architect, you know your product will be interesting. But that’s an understatement when it comes to Deep Ocean Technology (DOT) and their customizable underwater hotel.
Construction started in January (in Poland) but the first planned Water Discus hotel (in Dubai) will likely not be finished until March 2015, although development began in 2010. The basic version starts at $50 million, not including local research or transportation. Location and configuration vary the price. Building takes place in a shipyard where DOT manages the plans and tools, and sees to it that everything is right. Then, the hotel is transported to the desired site and installed.
“So far the main issues are tides and waves which don't allow project to be mounted everywhere,” says a spokesperson for the company.
In Dubai, the hotel will have a diameter of 100 feet above water, and one of 160 feet when underwater. The underwater disc will be 20 feet high. There will be a second disc above water. Spread between the two will be 21 suites, a bar, and, appropriately, a dive center.
“There are no underwater hotels so far,” says a spokesperson. “So to be the first person to spend night at underwater hotel will definitely be a great experience.” How and why? Stay tuned.
Aquadream Casablanca
Colorado-based International Concept Management (ICM) designs and builds custom water features and aquariums... big ones. Last year they unveiled the world’s first and largest cone-shaped aquarium with an interior glass elevator, in a transparent acrylic tube, at a shopping centerl in Casablanca, Morocco. Constructed of 4.7-inch thick acrylic panels, Aquadream is 31 feet high and holds 264,000 gallons of saltwater (made with fresh city water and artificial sea salt) and thousands of fish. Its base is just under 40 feet in diameter, and its top is just under 44 feet in diameter.
Made by ICM’s sister company, Reynolds Polymer Technology, the only design-build acrylic aquarium panel manufacturer in the U.S., Aquadream was too big to ship in one piece. Seven separate sections were bonded together on site, during which there were two small tremors. Casablanca is in a high seismic zone, so potential earthquake activity was a significant factor in the engineering. The aquarium sits on a concrete slab separate from the rest of the building. That isolation protects it from movement elsewhere in the mall, and also acts as a cushion.
In 2005, ICM built the world's largest cylindrical aquarium in the lobby of the 427-room Radison Blu in downtown Berlin, Germany. The knowledge attained in that project was integral to the success of Aquadream.
Bluworld of Water
Bluworld of Water is an Orlando, Florida-based design consultant, engineer, producer, tester, shipper and installer of just about any indoor water feature you can envision. They recently created a piece for Orlando’s Mall at Millennia, in less than three months from initial conversation to installation, for just over $300,000.
“Just about everything on that project was challenging,” says William Michalski, design engineer. “Being that the feature is shaped like an eye, the acrylic and stainless steel features on this project needed to be very precise in every way. Special equipment was used to cut, shape and make the eye-shape acrylic bubble panels.”
The team created a stainless-steel reservoir to support the bubble panel and contain the necessary equipment, and a stainless-steel cover for both the reservoir and bottom of the bubble panel, to conceal the base.
“Our clients ask more questions about lighting and controllability to add another dynamic layer to their features, says Rob Morton, director of sales and marketing at Bluworld. "So we now offer many options for color-changing lights and water flow, including a control-panel system that allows different programming," says Morton. This type of control allows the designer to change the water feature so that a person walking by only 10 minutes later would see a totally different feature both in color and water pattern.
Previous client Midstate Medical Center asked for a frameless water feature with the water on the back side of the glass, to avoid splashing and human contact, which can result in contamination. Bluworld created a fully integrated rolling ladder system, concealed in a 24-inch-deep space along the side, and attached it all to brackets on the ceiling. Clear tempered glass panels give a frameless appearance to the 20-foot-by-15-foot design. The possibilities are limitless.
Earth and Water Studios
Las Vegas-based Earth and Water Studios has designed and installed hundreds of custom water features in homes, offices, hotels and restaurants across the country, each requiring three to four weeks of work, from concept to completion.
First the company fabricates a stainless steel shell, which allows for precise mechanical attachment of the water features. It also prevents water from leaking into the drywall or surface material. Then the fun part (they say): cutting the granite. They specialize in this stone because of its timeless look, unique water pattern possibilities, and zero splash.
“Since all of our water features are handmade, each granite slab has a unique carving that will texturing the flowing water,” says owner Jon Kinney, who has water throughout his entire home. “Precision is an absolute must and our experience with some of the equipment on the market does not now allow the precision we are looking for. This is where the art form and experience comes in.”
Besides an artistic look, their creations are self-cleaning, have auto-refill systems (some require manually filling), are continuously sanitizing, use LED lighting, and have electronic and non-electronic safeguards. They also offer different water flow patterns and speeds.
Here’s some of their most surprising work, starting with a 20-foot high installation above a fireplace in a private home, completed last winter.
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