G Hotel Kelawai is an urban hotel with a contemporary and sophisticated outlook targeted at corporate executives and well-heeled business people. The hotel is a 24-storey building with 208 guest rooms, a rooftop infinity edge swimming pool, 3 food and beverage outlets including a roof top bar, a 24 hour gym, an executive lounge, state of the art function rooms, and a 2-storey basement car park. Passive environmental design strategies were harnessed to address the given climate, locality, and orientation of the site.
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- Photo credit: Patrick Bingham Hall
To address the hot and harsh tropical climate all year round, as well as the high operating costs involved in running a high occupancy building, the building envelope is a double layered “skin”. The outer skin is a sun shading screen made in durable and easily recyclable aluminium, with hollow sections on the podium and expanded mesh on the tower component.
Deep concrete overhangs project out from the building floor plates, not only to cut off direct sunlight, but also to be manipulated to hold the screening devices in a geometrical form and pattern that is immediately iconic and engaging on the public and private realm.
