Full Moon Hotel

Hotel, Restaurant in Baku, Azerbaijan

Full Moon Hotel

General information
Status| Approved
Type| Hotel, Restaurant
Location| Baku, Azerbaijan
Coordinates| 40°23′43″N 49°52′56″E﻿ / ﻿40.3952°N 49.8822°E﻿ / 40.3952; 49.8822
Height
Roof| 158 m (518 ft)
Top floor| 157 m (515 ft)
Technical details
Floor count| 35
Floor area| 104,182 m2 (1,121,410 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators| 10
Design and construction
Architect(s)| Heerim Architects
Other information
Number of rooms| 382[1]
Website
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/news.php?ref=1357
While officially this hotel has a 5-Star rating, the Full Moon says it is a 5-Star Deluxe hotel, and it says it is the world's second 7-Star hotel in advertising after the Burj Al Arab.[1]

The Full Moon Hotel was a proposed building in Baku, Azerbaijan on the western shore of the Caspian Sea. Hotel Full Moon's design originally appeared as a disc with rounded edges and a hole in one of the top corners, with aspects that appear radically different according to the angle it is seen from. The front aspect is reminiscent of a glass "Death Star" but from the side profile, it looks much like any ordinary glass tower. The Full Moon Hotel was planned to counterpoint the Aypara (Crescent Moon) Tower under construction around the bay in front of the Port Baku buildings adding to the 'new Dubai' feel of the city's 21st-century architecture.

However, now that the building's skeleton is nearing completion, it is clear that the original design has been abandoned in favour of something looking more like a giant lotus flower.

## Design[edit]

Changing appearance depending on the view is reinforced by the cladding treatment the architect has selected. The front will have a glass diagrid while the back will be covered with hexagonal honeycombs shaped windows.

This main building will be a 35-story luxury hotel with 104,182 square metres (1,121,410 sq ft) of space for only 382 rooms, a relatively small amount of rooms given the sheer size of the internal space on offer. It will reach a maximum height of 158.68 metres (520.6 ft).

The hotel is linked via a zoomorphically shaped podium that snakes curvaceously around the boundaries of the site to two residential apartment blocks entitled Palace of Wind One and Palace of Wind Two.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Article - 1357 - Full Moon Rising".
2. ^ 7-звездочная гостиница в столице Азербайджана (ОБНОВЛЕНО) [7-star hotel in the capital of Azerbaijan (UPDATE)] (in Russian). Baku.ws. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2014.