奥斯汀W酒店及居住综合体/Andersson Wise Architects

发布于：2023-06-25 23:38:15

Austin W hotel and residential complex

设计方：Andersson Wise Architects

位置：美国

分类：商业建筑

内容：实景照片

结构工程师：Thornton Tomasetti

设计团队：Arthur Andersson, Chris Wise, Catherine Craig, Leland Ulmer, Christopher Sanders, Laura McQuary, Rob

承包人：Austin Building Company

项目规模：18000.0平方米

图片：27张

摄影师：Andrew Pogue, Art Gray, Tom McConnell, Jonathan Jackson

这是由Andersson Wise Architects设计的奥斯汀W酒店及居住综合体。设计师利用了城市的自然环境，捕捉当地微风，遮挡强烈的阳光，营造了一个新的受保护而又开放的空间体验。这个多功能用途的项目包括了穆迪剧场、一个2700座的现场音乐表演区以及录音棚。这个综合体已成为奥斯汀市中心的一部分，并将当地的城市音乐文化提升到一个新的层面。该建筑按照高标准的环保要求进行设计，如今已获得LEED银牌认证。这将是德克萨斯州中部地区最大型的获得LEED认证的建筑，也是唯一一个混合功能综合体建筑。

场地限制是整个综合体的重要组成部分。建筑的体量规模与邻近建筑形成紧密联系，尤其是南面的市政厅。街道上的户外空间有助人流集散与快速经过。东南角是一个风景优美的公共广场，在这里可以享受到Lady Bird湖吹过来的微风，经过桥梁可以到达W酒店的户外酒吧及餐厅。毗邻的开放式阳台提供了拉瓦卡街到酒店入口的阴凉通道。这条户外走道采用了朴实无华、带有锈迹的钢材、板状混凝土及天然木材板，舒适而不失豪华。

建筑塔楼共37层，坐北朝南，墙体上设有许多小孔，以控制能量消耗及热量吸收。建筑南面是大方、宽敞的凹阳台，创造丰富的阴影。这个修长的综合体建筑，其三层裙楼看起来就像是极简主义的艺术作品。纯粹的外观，高反射率的窗口，这些体量与材料无一不尽显细节上的考虑。建筑师着重设计玻璃幕墙，其光滑的连续的外立面能反射和吸收光线，有时还能映衬周围的天空颜色，这些美妙的光影与柔和的灰色玻璃和灰色铝饰面形成和谐搭配。

译者：艾比

Austin’s W Hotel and Residences complex is a new centerpiece for the city, occupying a prime location in the skyline framing Austin City Hall and Lady Bird Lake. Andersson-Wise Architects, of Austin, designed the building to make the most of the city’s natural environment, capturing prevailing breezes and controlling the intense sunlight to create a protected yet open experience. The multi-use project includes Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater, a 2700-person-capacity live music venue and recording studio for the venerable PBS television production. The complex has truly activated this part of downtown Austin while adding a new dimension to the city’s musical culture. Conceived to set a higher standard for environmentally engaged design in Austin, the development has received Silver LEED certification and will be the largest building in the Central Texas region with this certification, and the only one that is mixed-use.

A restrained presence is a key component of the entire complex. Massing and scale make a strong connection to the neighboring buildings, especially to City Hall, which is immediately to the south. At the street level, open air spaces invite gathering and access from Austin’s Second Street District, a growing urban neighborhood. A landscaped public plaza on the southeast corner opens to cooling breezes off Lady Bird Lake and bridges to the W’s outdoor bar and restaurant, Trace. An adjoining open loggia provides a shaded passage from Lavaca Street to the hotel entrance. Panels of earthy, rusted steel by A. Zahner & Co. along with board-formed concrete and natural wood make this outdoor walkway comfortable and sumptuous.

The 37-story tower’s primary facades are oriented north-south with apertures composed to control energy usage and heat gain. On the south side, generous, deeply recessed terraces–inspired by the Native American cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde–create shaded, outdoor rooms for the condominium residences in summer and admit warm, winter light. North-facing units have walls that slide open to form porches. Projecting balconies shade the sun-drenched east and west sides of the tower. The building is intended to be welcoming, not overly produced.
The slender hotel and residential tower, positioned above the three-story podium, reads like a work of minimalist art. Sheer exterior surfaces, with their highly reflective windows, are intricately detailed to express volume and materials. The architects inverted the curtain wall detailing, turning the mullion to the inside of the building to give the effect of uninterrupted smoothness as one looks up the building surface. Shadows and natural light animate the mix of soft gray glazing and gray aluminum finishes by reflecting and sometimes absorbing the color of the surrounding sky. Light hits these surfaces and shimmers from some angles and appears flat from others.