Design Strategy / Formation

The existing elements on the site that requires a new way of organization are the walkway towards the Fenchurch Street Station, the London Underground exits and the programme that needs to place on the site: Hotel.
In order to appreciate the 3D nature of the site, the building does not respond to the urban tide in a linear way, the idea is to have three inhabitable tubes of space merging onto each other to create one urban element which could be potentially used as an urban corridore.
Where the building becomes the street, and the city flows through the building.

The lessons gathered from the Tokyu Department Store, Kyoto and Love Hotels seems to all be waiting for their moment to take place in such strategy. The technique of creation of a void from first term and the accumulation of varying amount of mass around it already gives a clue about how this building could be designed. Using the fade effect on the facade, this diagramatic model describes potential thickness of the inhabitable walls filled with programme.
The edge can dissapear and with the cutting angle exaggeration just like how it was in the study models I've made in the beggining of the year. This kind of edge would provide a viewing deck for the tourists to take photos, enjoy the Tower Bridge and panaromic London view.

The walkway is a very important arterier for the city which lets the pedastrians cross the Tower Bridge to the southern side of Thames without being obstructed by the traffic. It's also used by the tourists to access Tower of London from the Tower Hill London Underground Station.

This animation could explain the way the I have imagined so far how this project strategy can work within this formation.

The mesh shows potentially where the hotel rooms could be located, and the X marks show the direction of three locations for a vertical connection. The entrances from the north could be from a door and suddenly the visitor could find himself in the public space.

Since it rains quite often in London, this kind of semi-open spaces could really work.