Hartland Commons
Located across from the historic Howard Theater in Northwest, Washington, DC, Hartland Commons is a boutique hotel designed from the top down. Rooms are laid out in a repetitive, modular fashion, creating a series of bars organized against the edges of the site. These bars are expressed as individual volumes converging at the east end of the building, the narrowest point of the triangle.
Between the bars of rooms, glazed gaps allow light to enter into the long double-loaded central corridor, creating visual connections to the street. A garden occupies a wedge-shaped portion of the site adjacent to the Dunbar Hotel and permits access to natural light for a series of minimal pod-style hotel rooms on the upper floors of the building.
The lower levels are occupied by public spaces at the east end, which consist of the double story hotel lobby and an adjacent coffee shop. On the second level exists a lounge, spa and wellness facilities while the ground floor is home to generous retail spaces.