Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the New York-based architectural firm, has recently completed The Park Hotel Hyderabad, the flagship hotel for The Park Hotel Group.
This 531,550-square-foot, 270-room hotel infuses a modern, sustainable
design with the local craft traditions, and is influenced by the
region’s reputation as a center for the design and production of
gemstones and textiles.
Roger Duffy, SOM’s Partner in Charge of the project, says, "This
building signals our commitment to creating a design that simultaneously
felt at home among the exuberant vernacular architecture of Hyderabad,
while simultaneously incorporating the latest sustainable strategies and
technologies.”
The project is distinctive for its profound implementation of
sustainable design strategies, with special attention paid to the
building’s relationship to its site, daylighting and views. Solar
studies influenced the site orientation and building massing, with
program spaces concentrated in the north and south facades, and service
circulation on the west to reduce heat gain. The hotel rooms are raised
to allow more expansive views, situated on top of a podium comprised of
retail spaces, art galleries, and banquet halls open to guests and
visitors.
The building’s three sides wrap around an elevated central courtyard
that can be accessed from the hotel lobby. This flexible outdoor area is
protected from strong winds, and serves as an extension of the
restaurants inside. It features a private dining court and a swimming
pool, which can be seen from the adjacent areas and the nightclub below,
with moving patterns formed by light passing through the pool’s water.
The outdoor courtyard was designed to be a multifunctional space
accessible from the lobby, restaurants, and bar that surround it.
Elevated three stories above ground, this veranda provides views to
Hussain Sagar Lake and the city.
The facade provides a range of transparency according to the needs of
the spaces inside. Perforated and embossed metal screens over a
high-performance glazing system give privacy to the hotel rooms while
allowing diffused daylight to enter the interior spaces, and provides
acoustic insulation from trains passing nearby. The opaque areas of the
cladding shield the hotel’s service areas from public view. The shape of
the facade’s openings, as well as the three-dimensional patterns on the
screens themselves, were inspired by the forms of the metalwork of the
crown jewels of the Nizam, the city’s historic ruling dynasty.
Priya Paul, Chairperson of Apeejay Surrendra Park Hotels which owns
The Park brand, describes The Park, Hyderabad as "a Modern Indian
Palace, something refreshing and different that speaks to the
aspirations of India today.”
Collaboration with manufacturers, fabricators, and researchers played
a vital role in developing this low-energy prototype building, with
data gathered in collaboration with the Stevens Institute of
Technology’s Product Architecture Lab in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a
result, the design team was able to reduce the building’s energy use by
twenty percent. In addition, an on-site water treatment facility and
sewage treatment plant process both gray water for reuse and waste water
for release back into the city’s sewer system.
The project achieved the first LEED Gold certification for a hotel in
India, and has been awarded Best New Hospitality Project of 2010 from
Cityscape India. It also served as a case study for using a
collaborative process to achieve an environmentally efficient design in
Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal in 2009, and
was the subject of a white paper written by the design team on the
high-performance curtain wall system.
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