Angel Hotel, Lavenham
A hospitality exterior precedent showing how historic vernacular architecture by Project Orange is activated with outdoor dining terraces and sensitive signage.
- What we like about this project
- The prominent blue serif typography of 'THE ANGEL HOTEL' applied directly onto the gable end wall.
Materials
- stucco
- slate
- timber
- glass
- canvas
Visual identifiers
- historic-facade
- sash-windows
- rendered-wall
- hotel-signage
- outdoor-dining
Style tags
- vernacular
- contextual
- hospitality
Visual tags
- hospitality
- historic-renovation
- vernacular
- street-facade
- outdoor-seating
- Geometry
- Asymmetric multi-volume historic vernacular building featuring pitched slate and tile roofs, intersecting gables, and evenly spaced punched sash windows.
- Facade system
- Traditional load-bearing rendered masonry walls with inset timber sash windows and projecting entrance bay.
- Structural guess
- Historic timber frame and masonry bearing walls
- Spatial scale
- Two-story historic building scale, intimate pedestrian outdoor dining zone.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight casting soft shadows from umbrellas and roof overhangs onto the cream-rendered facade.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, sunlit, and welcoming community gathering atmosphere in front of a historic hotel.
- Environmental context
- Historic town street setting with outdoor hospitality terrace directly against the building frontage.
- Spatial experience
- Welcoming street-level hospitality zone with outdoor dining spilling onto the pedestrian-paved forecourt in front of the historic facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical rhythm of traditional multi-pane sash windows countered by the dynamic grouping of outdoor tables and parasols.
- Style reading
- Contextual historic hospitality adaptation
- Program
- Hotel and outdoor dining terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stucco, slate, timber, glass, canvas
- Visual identifiers
- historic-facade, sash-windows, rendered-wall, hotel-signage, outdoor-dining
- Style tags
- vernacular, contextual, hospitality
- Visual tags
- hospitality, historic-renovation, vernacular, street-facade, outdoor-seating
- Geometry
- Asymmetric multi-volume historic vernacular building featuring pitched slate and tile roofs, intersecting gables, and evenly spaced punched sash windows.
- Facade system
- Traditional load-bearing rendered masonry walls with inset timber sash windows and projecting entrance bay.
- Structural guess
- Historic timber frame and masonry bearing walls
- Spatial scale
- Two-story historic building scale, intimate pedestrian outdoor dining zone.
- Lighting
- Bright midday daylight casting soft shadows from umbrellas and roof overhangs onto the cream-rendered facade.
- Atmosphere
- Lively, sunlit, and welcoming community gathering atmosphere in front of a historic hotel.
- Environmental context
- Historic town street setting with outdoor hospitality terrace directly against the building frontage.
- Spatial experience
- Welcoming street-level hospitality zone with outdoor dining spilling onto the pedestrian-paved forecourt in front of the historic facade.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical rhythm of traditional multi-pane sash windows countered by the dynamic grouping of outdoor tables and parasols.
- Style reading
- Contextual historic hospitality adaptation
- Program
- Hotel and outdoor dining terrace
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture