The Location of Venice is crucial we have the Bike Path constructed in 1972 which serves as a primary lifeline that connects Santa Monica, Venice and Ballona Creek together. On the northern side of the site
we have Santa Monica pier and on the south, there are the Venice canals, surrounded with multi-million dollar houses, within the presence of such Iconic buildings as Frank Gehry's "Spiller House", Chia-Day building, Venice beach house… etc.

The Site is a vacant parking lot located at 609 ocean front walk Venice beach. The Main access attributes of the site are the access road in the back which enables automobile movement, the boardwalk
directly in front of the site which accommodates more than 250 thousand pedestrians every day, and the two alley-ways connecting the back street to the site.

Due to highly disorganized and obscure nature of
Venice, we wanted to introduce something that the site lacked. We wanted to introduce something which would make a statement!; Thus taking advantage of the site's prime location the project introduces a
highly exclusive hotel which has a close connection to beach and to the boardwalk giving the illusion of transparency yet It being very exclusive almost like a getaway if desired to be.

Due to the automobile access being located in the back, we decided to push all the services and reception towards the rear; thus zoning the lobby in the back. To screen the occupants of the hotel from
the noise of the boardwalk we pushed the units into the back, as a result a grand plaza is unraveled for the occupants, honored guests and private events. To create a more buoyant spatial feel, we decided to
chop the program and lift it, thus creating little island like structure(s) autonomous of themselves to house the hotel occupants.