The Xia Emerald Hotel

The building is located in a strategic point in the city, close to La Guardia Airport and facing the waterfront. The rich and dynamic urban context serves as a unique framework to design the Xia Emerald Hotel building. the site from a conceptual point of view works like a junction between different types of traffic flows, road traffic flows, air traffic flows and maritime traffic flows. These different flows surrounding the site inspired us to develop the design for the Xia Emerald Hotel. The site from a conceptual point of vie􀁛 is the junction between different types of traffic flows, including road traffic flows, air traffic flows an maritime traffic flows.