Hotel and Conference Center for Foreign Dignitaries

Located along the bank of the Potomac River in Langley Virginia, this Hotel and Conference Center is a place of gathering and refuge for foreign dignitaries. Each building shares the characteristic of protruding volumes and surfaces reinforced by parallel load bearing masonry walls. These brick walls buffer the interior from the exterior and demarcate the program. Punched voids provide natural light. Each element including entry, wall, stair, column, and fireplace is designed to comply with the collective composition. The circulation is situated along the building\'s edge, thus guiding people from center to edge across diagonals and through corridors naturally lit from adjacent windows. Drawing played an essential role throughout the design. In the following drawings the process of design and discovery in architecture is intelligible. The question of "how" is more revealing than the question of "what."

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Department dc:contributor.department

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Hershey, Stephen Paul

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Gartner, Howard Scott

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Thompson, Steven R.
• Galloway, William U.

• Hotel
• Conference Center
• Brick
• Elements
• Composition

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:1187

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/23702