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client: Continental Properties|
employer: DLRGroup
role: Project Manager | Project Architect | Interiors | BIM Development
year: 2017
renderings: mrlw
images: Marriott – Residence Inn + Misc
Started in 2017, this hotel project was contacted to be a straight prototype of the Marriott Residence Inn brand, and part of a larger overall development (apartment complex upper right of the photo) in the City of Eagan, MN.
The deviations from ‘typical’ prototype were few. If you’re starting one of these – the pool and lobby areas lack the wall area necessary to accommodate shear, so you’ll be playing with window placement. Additionally the beam needed for the pool area clear span was a massive glue lam, that was a crime to cover in gypsum board.
The particular challenges with this project had to with exterior materials, budget and construction. Many of these will be covered in a Hospitality ‘tips and tricks’ article I’ll post.
As with the other projects that I develop, the entire architectural model was produced to a level that could be used for facilities management.
Every brand specified object contains intelligence, and all of the objects point back to the canned specification provided by Marriott.
For this project, the exterior materials & color morphed a few times – which required multiple material area calculations for the city of Eagan to make sure that we were within their area allotments for material classifications.
To help mitigate that, I introduced several ‘extra’ parameters in the exterior walls to help verify their location in space to build out entire area schedules filtered by wall orientation.
The addition of these tools also added the ability for exterior insulation calculations – which aided greatly in calculating the energy modeling. It also offered the ability to cross check material take-offs provided by the contractor & check finish quantities. Understanding fully that quantity and means & methods aren’t in the architectural scope – the effective use of BIM can help a project, not just be one of the issues that architect’s carry liability insurance for.
The particular challenges of this late project were late-stage redevelopment of the entire envelope & entire interior package. Brick dimensions were revised 3 separate times, and on and off the 8-inch module (Standard, to King Size, back to utility).
There were several other full package design revisions to the project, and additional contractor requests that just added complexity without much resolution toward a better product – so as ‘canned’ as a project as this one was – it was not simple.
The exterior wall assembly, while repetitive – still remains complex, was aided by the use of axons in the exterior elevation package to identify how, as well as what materials turn the seemingly endless corners in this brand type.
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