The Verrière
Boutique hotel created in an existing retail space.
Santa Monica, California
 
Concept: Light filtering through layers of the forest.
 
The Verrière is a boutique hotel located on the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. It is a two-storey, 26,000 square foot building. It is located between two buildings, and on the first floor, the floor level drops 35 inches due to a height difference between the promenade street and the alley street. To meet fire code, the building has two means of egress in the form of stairs located in the space. There are also two elevators that meet ADA requirements.
 
The first floor has a main reception with a lobby and a small office that opens up to the Promenade, and there is also a back reception that opens to the alley street. Between the two receptions, there is a bar/lounge. This space also has storage of alcohol behind the bar and male and female ADA-compliant bathrooms. The floors alternate between scored concrete and an engineered wood flooring, based upon level changes. The floor level changes gradually across the entire first floor – so that the floor levels are flush with the according street level - and there are stairs and ramps as needed at these points. The ceilings in the receptions reflect this change, through heights and colours. The ceiling in the bar/lounge is five tiers of resin panels that allow light to filter through. The walls in all these spaces are painted with aesthetic angled reclaimed birch panels.
The second floor has ten bedrooms with private bathrooms, one bedroom and bathroom are ADA compliant, two public areas, and two linen storage rooms. There are seven single rooms and three double rooms. All public flooring is an engineered wood flooring, in the bedrooms there is carpet, and in the bathrooms there are two types of tiles used. In the public areas and the bedroom, the walls are paint with aesthetic angled reclaimed birch panels. The corridor walls (the outside of the rooms) are all paint, and the bathrooms use a combination of tiles of an engineered wood paneling. All the ceilings on the second floor are a suspended ceiling with engineered wood panels.
 
The majority of the roof is removed and replaced with a skylight to bring in daylighting and create a passive circulation system. There are also two atriums from the first floor that are topped with skylights on the roof, again bringing in daylighting and passive ventilation. To meet code requirements for allowances of daylighting and natural ventilation, there is a 5’x5’ south-facing light-well in every room, with a film that allows control over the amount of light entering through the light-well. Every room also has clerestory windows and an operable window for passive ventilation.
 
Due to the angular design of the floor plans, most of the furniture is custom designed for the space. Major furniture elements include the bar and receptions desks which feature crushed glass countertops, a Finnply Plex structure, and 3-Form Varia Ecoresin panels.
Overview
Logo
Lobby Feature Wall
View to Reception
View to Lobby and Skylight
Bar and Lounge
Bar and Lounge
Bar
Lounge
Single Bedroom
Bathroom (in Bedrooms)
Corridor and Skylight
Public Areas
Diagrams, Logo, Site, and Exterior
Floor and Roof Plans, and Sections
RCPs and Sections
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