Architecture, Interior Design | Remodeling | Hospitality Design
Portland, KY
Project Description
A modern motel will reflect the region's pre-historic period. Erosion of the Ohio River on limestone rock shelves dates back 386 million years to the geologic Devonian Period. The erosion created a series of rapids in this mostly blue-color Louisville suburb, where geologists and residents have discovered an abundance of fossils from the period. The motel’s owners named their venture "The Devonian” and abstract forms in the fossils will establish tectonic geometrics in the renovation. Redefined, the motel will offer small, private rooms for guests and large open spaces for the community and guests to use -- for life in the time of Covid and beyond.
Credits
Architecture and Interior Design: Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi, pod architecture + design