Professional

Borgo Miranda

Monte Bre, Lugano, Switzerland

Context

GRUNER & FRIENDS is asked to design a 5-star hotel resort at the Village of Monte Bre, over looking to the south of Lago Maggiore. The hotel consists of 17 suites and 53 apartments, two restaurants, bar, cafe, bakery, spa with both indoor and outdoor pools, conference rooms and kids club.

Role

I was tasked to develop ways to optimize the views of the hotel suites and apartments, several rounds of testing were done in grasshopper to measure the total and individual performance.
Computation Designer
Site Analysis
Presentation Graphic
2019
| GRUNER&FRIENDS
Status
| Building Permit Submitted
Area
| 9000 sqm
Type
| mix-used
Award:
Winning entry for the 5 star hotel
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Approach

The schedule was splited into two clusters from an early stage, as the design takes advantage of the available area and alternate natural beauty of Mont Bre. More importantly it is to reduce the complexity as well as the computational time for the view studies.

Each individual house is allow ed to shift within a set distance and rotate to avoid overlapping views.

The test is done in a 2.5D environment, it takes on the z values of the location of the house, however, the view cones are 2D to push of number of interactions.

Hundreds of iterations were tested through using Grasshopper's evolution algorithms

View Study

The blue lines represent the field of views of every single unit, the color is is a representation of its angular extent: blue is provides a wider view and red provides a sub-par performance.