In rationalizing the studio proposition: Parking + Hotel, I interpreted the parking as the catalyst for inducing sensations similar to that of a John Portman atrium but amplified and expanded at various scaled. After multiple formal exercised interpreting how the two programs could nest together, I chose to hoist the hotel programs up on an airy parking plinth that provides the visual spectacle of stationary cars in motion.

By lifting the hotel amenities, the aim was for the edifice to embody the destination hotel by physically removing guests from their familiar ground plane and introducing them to unique programmed planes at various inclines and scales. This provides a hotel experience that emulates the circulation around a spiraling parking garage with specifically placed shortcuts for ease of access and egress.

In order to celebrate the sense of spatial ambiguity allotted by the circular floor plan, seen most notably in Bertrand Goldberg's utopic forms, I incrementally elongated and rotated the floors around two vacuous atrium nuclei that split and combine dynamically to emphasize their verticality. The result is a monumental lifted building that multiplies a self-similar architectural language to produce an internalized resort whose procession emphasizes intentional ambiguities about interior and exterior boundaries.