Architecture, Interior Design | Remodeling | Hospitality Design
Portland, KY
Project Description
A modern motel reflects the region's pre-historic period. In Portland, KY, erosion of the Ohio River on hard limestone rock shelves dates back 386 million years to the geologic Devonian Period, an interval of the Paleozoic Era. The erosion created a series of rapids, or "falls," in this mostly blue-color Louisville suburb, where geologists and residents have discovered an abundance of fossils from the period. To reflect the tangible evidence of the Devonian Period in their community, the new owners of an existing motel renamed their venture "The Devonian." To renovate and redefine the motel to suit its nomenclature, pod a+d used abstract forms in fossils found there to establish tectonic geometrics. Programmatically, the motel features small private rooms for guests and large open community spaces for work and play -- for life in the time of Covid and beyond.
Credits
Architecture and Interior Design: Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi, pod architecture + design