Royal Roi Hotel

The building site of this hotel is located in Taichung, Taiwan, neighboring one of the major circular elevated expressways.
Although the site is near the bustling commercial area, what the site actually faces up to is the unending wind noise generated from the vehicles passing through the elevated roads at high travel speed. Meanwhile, the west-facing facade of this building is another challenge as it's the most disfavoring "western exposure" for Taiwan people. Generally, during the period from afternoon towards evening, people in Taiwan used to draw the curtains closed to reduce the sun flood casting through the west-facing windows of the buildings. So, what we consider first is how to solve the problems of "western exposure" and "wind noise". And our design concept "window view with trees in the balcony and the leaves swaying in the breeze" is inspired by "planting some trees over the facade of the building" and the "semi-recessed windows and balconies" to be the buffer that helps reduce the sun exposure and lower the noise nuisance at the same time.
Along the way of searching the suitable trees for planting over the building facade, we find out that the tree can stand up to the wind load on the higher floors of the building only if the height of the tree is about 4M to 5M with strong tree roots. However, the height of storey in a building is just restricted to 3.2M so that the idea for the window view of "two storeys share one tree" is born this way.
By Taiwan's legal restrictions on the area of the balcony, we cannot make a tree-embellished window view for all the guest rooms. Under such limitation, we have to carefully check and plan for the tree decoration between two balconies on the way of design. Consequently, the building facade is gradually transformed into the appearance of "island-hopping-style tree decoration".
"A Resort in the Hustle and Bustle of Urban City, Free of Dust yet Close to the City"