Redesign Golden Tree hotel
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2018
Authors
Nazzal, Raghad
Abbadi, Sewar
Yamak, Jannat
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Recently, hotels play a very important part of any country's economy and culture. Around the
world, hotels have different categories, the stars rating system ranks between (1-5) stars, this
category differs between countries but it defined by some factor like price, service, food and
enmities.
This project has an analysis and redesign for Golden tree hotel, it’s a 4 stars hotel located at
Nablus city. The old design had 6 floors, each floor had 826.43 area, it contained hotel
functions like: bedrooms, reception, administration rooms, swimming pools, storages and
garages in addition to other functions like: restaurants and wedding holes.
At first stage, the hotel has been analysed from different aspects, as a result, different design
problems was detected like: Architectural problems, for example: non-sufficient spaces Areas
and car barking, low ceilings and bad circulation. Structural problems like: non-sufficient area of
steel and concrete and the old design didn’t match seismic design aspects. As for Electrical
problems, there were lighting problems and non-sufficient number of power sockets. Mechanical
problems like: bad HVAC system with no ventilation and bad return systems and non-sufficient
water supply system. Finally Safety problems like: there was no emergency exits and smoke
disposal system.
At second stage, there was a redesign for Golden tree hotel, the new design solved old
design problems in different design fields, as for Architectural design, the new design contained
new needed spaces that old design didn’t have like: clinic, rubbish and linear shut, also spaces
areas and heights were modified so it could deal with standards, sufficient number of garages and
better circulation between spaces was found. As for Structural design, the new structural design
was enhanced, so that elements can handle its loads and deals with seismic requirements. New
Electrical design has better lighting systems in all spaces, good wiring connections for different
systems and the power consumption of the building has been reduced from 360.05 KWh/ to
160.8 KWh/ . New Mechanical system had better Hvac system with good distribution for
supply, return and fresh air to achieve good mixing and better air quality, also better water
supply and drainage system was design to deal with customer’s needs. Finally, better fire
preventing, suppression, alarming and escape systems were found in the hotel to save guests
lives.
Various soft wares were used to find the new design such as: AutoCAD, Revit, Design
Builder, Dialux, Ecotict, insole and Etabs.
In conclusion, at the end of this project, Golden tree hotel had a new integrated,
environmentally friendly, economic design that solved most of old design problems, deals with
standards, and archives customer’s needs, comfort safety and luxury.