Circa Hotel (2019)
DESIGN BRIEF
- Project: Circa Hotel
- Building Type: Boutique hotel with retail component
- No of Suites: 30
- Design Team: Emem Essien & Steven Paredes Lopez
- Clients: Millenials
- Location: 460 King Street West (King & Spadina), Toronto
- Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Revit
- Project Year: 2019
Before
Existing heritage building known as Quantum Coffee.
After
Repurposed building known as Circa Hotel with a curved drive-through to reflect the intersection at King & Spadina.
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Site Analysis
CONCEPT: PERMEABILITY
To begin with, our underlying theme for the redesign of 460 King Street West symbolizes permeability: embracing its skeleton (heritage foundation) by radiating it to the surrounding site’s innovative, contemporary settings. Our team iterates the concept of openness which calls for fluidity in that there is a free flow of circulation through the space as we regard people as the ‘blood of our buildings’- what makes our buildings come to life. In considering this, our design objectives include creating appropriate entrances to accommodate the different levels of vibrancy on King and Spadina: retail on King and main entrance on Spadina.
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Situations & Diagramming
Programme & Situations
Planning & Diagramming
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Drawings
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Key Renderings
