Aria Resort Casino
An exterior precedent for curvilinear hospitality high-rises featuring extensive glass curtain walls framing a resort pool landscape.
- What we like about this project
- The dramatic curvature of the glass towers creates multiple dynamic reflections of the pool and surrounding landscape.
Materials
- glass
- metal
- water
- concrete
- natural-stone
Visual identifiers
- curvilinear-towers
- glass-curtain-wall
- resort-pool
- high-rise
Style tags
- contemporary
- commercial
- hospitality
Visual tags
- hospitality
- curved-facade
- pool-deck
- high-rise
- commercial-architecture
- Geometry
- Curvilinear twin high-rise towers with sweeping convex glass and metal curtain wall facades, viewed from a resort pool deck.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass and metal curtain wall with continuous horizontal louvers or spandrel lines.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite high-rise frame with rigid cores and cantilevered floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Massive resort scale; high-rise towers dominate the skyline while the pool deck accommodates numerous lounge chairs at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp highlights and deep blue reflections across the pool water and glass skin.
- Atmosphere
- Sunny, luxurious, and expansive resort atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Resort pool deck surrounded by palm trees and tropical landscaping under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- A grand, open-air pool deck creates a foreground of leisure that contrasts with the imposing scale of the towering reflective hotel facade above.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal window spandrel bands following the sweeping curves of the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary resort commercial architecture
- Program
- Resort casino and hotel
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glass, metal, water, concrete, natural-stone
- Visual identifiers
- curvilinear-towers, glass-curtain-wall, resort-pool, high-rise
- Style tags
- contemporary, commercial, hospitality
- Visual tags
- hospitality, curved-facade, pool-deck, high-rise, commercial-architecture
- Geometry
- Curvilinear twin high-rise towers with sweeping convex glass and metal curtain wall facades, viewed from a resort pool deck.
- Facade system
- Unitized glass and metal curtain wall with continuous horizontal louvers or spandrel lines.
- Structural guess
- Steel and concrete composite high-rise frame with rigid cores and cantilevered floor plates.
- Spatial scale
- Massive resort scale; high-rise towers dominate the skyline while the pool deck accommodates numerous lounge chairs at human scale.
- Lighting
- Bright direct daylight casting crisp highlights and deep blue reflections across the pool water and glass skin.
- Atmosphere
- Sunny, luxurious, and expansive resort atmosphere.
- Environmental context
- Resort pool deck surrounded by palm trees and tropical landscaping under a clear blue sky.
- Spatial experience
- A grand, open-air pool deck creates a foreground of leisure that contrasts with the imposing scale of the towering reflective hotel facade above.
- Composition rhythm
- Repetitive horizontal window spandrel bands following the sweeping curves of the facade.
- Style reading
- Contemporary resort commercial architecture
- Program
- Resort casino and hotel
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture