Mayland Seaside Hotel, China

The Mayland Seaside Hotel is designed to form an important centerpiece, and present an image of high-end, modern, sophisticated Five Star business hotel.  The architecture of the hotel not a style that can be instantly recognized, but architecture that emerges through a specific team-based process. Yet, it stands out as an iconic landmark with great proud holding a bright spot on Guangzhou skyline but it also includes sensibility to social responsiveness, energy use, urbanism and ecological awareness.

The geometry of the tower at MSH is straight forward being based on a simple faceted cylindrical geometry which maximizes repetition in the glazing panels in most areas. Unique to this building and rising to the challenge of incorporating renewable energy solutions with sustainable architecture, the design provides for wind turbines on the upper portion of the tower and massive array of photovoltaic panels covering the entire south façade.

Patel Architecture is taking advantage of the tropical sun, using solar electric panels on the south façade.The curtain wall design of the south glass wall will havePVtechnology integrated in to more than 2800 m2 (29000 sq.ft.) of the façade glass. In all, the hotel’s PV technology will have a 280,000 kWh capacity.Generating electricity at the site where it will be used reduces the losses that come from handling and distributing it.

The proposed ground breaking design of the Mayland Seaside Hotel will be the first in the world and is expected to be the most energy-efficient five star hotel ever built.