Vertical Strip, Hanging Tower, Concept Building, Project, News, Design

Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower, USA

American Casino Resort - Concept Design at Hoover Dam / Bypass Bridge

Jul 2011 Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower Casino resort, a satellite alternative to Las Vegas Design: Stephan Sobl My Diploma is about the interplay of opaque massive surfaces capable of incorporating poché and lightweight, fragile structure. The resulting environments developed by these distinct architectural languages are exploited and distributed vertically to create extreme spatial sequences. The project is a casino resort, a satellite alternative to Las Vegas, located on a dramatic site between the Hoover Dam and the Bypass Bridge. The resort caters to various 21st century vices including entertainment (concert venues, MMA Fighting), gambling and luxury living. The architectural challenges I dealt with were taking the convential vertical tower, including its plynth and orientation, and turning it upside down. images © Stephan Sobl Architectural elements: The massing layout is construed by the event space on top with a framed view of the Hoover Damm; the casino underneath leading to the hotel lobby and the hotel itself. At the bottom of the tower there is a dramatic area for happenings and ceremonial occasions. It also includes a breakfast room and high end dining with the elevator core floating above the space; a glass floor providing views to the ground; and terraced floor slabs. In terms of circulation, there are several ways leading into the plynth of the tower, including car circulation; and viewing platforms. The bridge circulation focuses on 3 elements: - structural details of the Bypass Bridge - openings to the Hoover Damm - breathtaking diagonal views of the hanging tower with a constant interplay of plunging and emerging. Once you arrive at the entrance of the tower, you enter the hanging structure through the supportive strings leading you down through the casino into the hotel lobby. The structural system is divided into 3 tectonics: - a massive concrete structure building the cantelivar for the hanging tower - a lightweight hanging tower - a metal shell embracing the structure The way I generated the tower is with a partical simulation based on gravity. In order to achieve structural logic the stings are rotated clockwise and counter clockwise. The metal shell provides shading and natural wind cicrulation for the tower of which its panels are orientating themselves according to changing wind conditions. images © Stephan Sobl Stephan Sobl just graduated from architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna - Studio Greg LYNN. Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower text / images © Stephan Sobl, 2011 Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower images / information from Stephan Sobl

Nevada Architecture

Arizona Architecture

California Architecture

Yucca Crater, Mojave Desert, CA, USA
Ball Nogues Studio

picture : Courtesy Ball-Nogues Studio

MahaNakhon, Bangkok, Thailand

image © OMA/Ole Scheeren

Sphere Shelter

Treehouse Building



American Architecture - Nevada Selection:

City Center
various architects

image : CityCenter Land, LLC
Las Vegas building

Mondri and Elano Hotels
Julien de Smedt Architects

image from architects

Las Vegas Hotel

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
will bruder+PARTNERS

image from architects
Nevada building

Comments / photos for the Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower page welcome: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Vertical Strip – A Hanging Tower : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

[Back to Top]

Tweet