Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood — KLAI JUBA WALD
An aerial resort precedent demonstrating the integration of private water-adjacent cabana villas with extensive lagoon pools and high-rise hospitality architecture.
- What we like about this project
- A series of private cabanas directly overhang the crystalline pool water like floating islets.
Materials
- glass
- stucco
- wood
- water
- tile
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- lagoon-pool
- water-cabanas
- curved-facade
- tropical-resort
Style tags
- contemporary
- hospitality
- tropical
Visual tags
- hospitality
- resort
- aerial
- waterfront
- landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Expansive layout featuring an array of small orthogonal pavilion cabanas set within curving lagoon pools, flanked by a massive curved hotel facade and a prominent guitar-shaped tower.
- Facade system
- Glass curtain wall system on the high-rise towers paired with stucco and warm wood detailing on low-rise pavilions.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete frames for the towers; lightweight timber or concrete masonry for the pool cabanas.
- Spatial scale
- Vast resort scale; multi-story hotel towers dwarf the human-scale cabanas clustered along the water.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight with crisp shadows cast from the towers and palm trees across the pool decks and roofs.
- Atmosphere
- Luxurious, vacation-oriented, and vibrant under bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or resort setting with flat horizon, surrounding greenery, highways, and parking structures in the background.
- Spatial experience
- A dense resort landscape where private water-edge cabanas look out over large resort swimming lagoons and lush tropical plantings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating hip-roof cabana modules creating a structured rhythm along the curving water edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary resort architecture
- Program
- Resort hotel, casino, and leisure pool complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, stucco, wood, water, tile, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- lagoon-pool, water-cabanas, curved-facade, tropical-resort
- Style tags
- contemporary, hospitality, tropical
- Visual tags
- hospitality, resort, aerial, waterfront, landscape-integration
- Geometry
- Expansive layout featuring an array of small orthogonal pavilion cabanas set within curving lagoon pools, flanked by a massive curved hotel facade and a prominent guitar-shaped tower.
- Facade system
- Glass curtain wall system on the high-rise towers paired with stucco and warm wood detailing on low-rise pavilions.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete frames for the towers; lightweight timber or concrete masonry for the pool cabanas.
- Spatial scale
- Vast resort scale; multi-story hotel towers dwarf the human-scale cabanas clustered along the water.
- Lighting
- Bright, direct daylight with crisp shadows cast from the towers and palm trees across the pool decks and roofs.
- Atmosphere
- Luxurious, vacation-oriented, and vibrant under bright sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Suburban or resort setting with flat horizon, surrounding greenery, highways, and parking structures in the background.
- Spatial experience
- A dense resort landscape where private water-edge cabanas look out over large resort swimming lagoons and lush tropical plantings.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating hip-roof cabana modules creating a structured rhythm along the curving water edges.
- Style reading
- Contemporary resort architecture
- Program
- Resort hotel, casino, and leisure pool complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture