ONE OF THE MOST LUXURY HOTEL

BURJ AL ARAB

MEMBERS :

FAJAR AKMAL W 21020115130084

HENDI 21020115130123

GUPHITA PUTRI P 21020115140145

DIPONEGORO UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

SEMARANG

2016
 PREFACE

Thank to Almighty God for the blessing of His grace, and that we were given the opportunity to
be able to complete a working paper entitled “ONE OF THE MOST LUXURY HOTEL – BURJ AL
ARAB” is properly and correctly, and on time.

This paper is structured so that reader can know more about Burj Al Arab like it facility, interior,
the price for living, etc.

The compilers also thanked to Mrs. Atrinawati as our lecture in English subject.

Hopefully this paper can give a broader insight to the reader. Although this paper has advantages
and disadvantages. Thank you.

Autors

5 October 2016

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 TABLE LIST OF CONTENT

PREFACE ..................................................................................................................i

TABLE LIST OF CONTENT .....................................................................................ii

CHAPTER I (INDTRODUCTION) ............................................................................. 1

1.1 Background .................................................................................................... 1

1.2 Purpose .......................................................................................................... 1

CHAPTER II (THEORITICAL STUDY) ..................................................................... 2

2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................... 2

2.2 Burj Al Arab Features ..................................................................................... 3

2.3 Facility .......................................................................................................... 3

CHAPTER III (CONCLUSION) ............................................................................... 7

3.1 Conclusion ................................................................................................... 7

BIBLIOGRAPHY ..................................................................................................... 8

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CHAPTER

1.1 Background
There’s many hotel in the world providing standard facilities in hotel in general, and do
you know ? there’s a hotel providing something different facilities to make the visitor or the guess
of the hotel get another experience compared with ordinary hotel. There’s ambitious project to
realize what the owner’s hotel want. The owner’s is not hesitate to pay high cost for present the
iconic building. To make iconic building, they build the building in artificial island to make that
building stand out then the other building, they build extraordinary form to mimic something
familiar form that make amazing view to site , that step followed by Burj Al-Arab’s owner which
is make Burj Al-Arab one of most expensive hotel in the world

1.2 Purepose

1. To add the insight the knowledge that wired

2. Introducing the works of the architecture that there in the world
3. As a source of information

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CHAPTER II

2.1 Introduction

Tom Wright (formerly Tom Wills-Wright) - The architect and designer of the Burj al Arab in
Dubai, UAE. He lived in Dubai during the design and construction of the project, working as the project
Design Director for Atkins , one of the world′s leading multi discipline design consultancies. He born in
Croydon a suburb of London on 18th September 1957. Educated at the Royal Russell School and then
Kingston Polytechnic school of Architecture. Wright became a member of the Royal institute of British
Architects in 1983 and has been in practice ever since.

The instruction from the client (the Crown Prince of Dubai) was to design, not just a hotel, but also a
signature building; one that would announce, "Welcome to Dubai". The client wanted a dramatic
statement with imagery that would immediately conjure up images of the city. The building is built on
sand, which is unusual as most tall building are founded on rock. The Burj al Arab is supported on 250,
1.5M diameter columns that go 45 meters under the sea. As there is only sand to hold the building up the
columns rely on friction

The orientation of the building minimizes the heat gain during the summer seasons. The south
elevation has the most exposed surface area. As a result, it has the maximum capacity for heat absorption.
For people, there is access to the hotel through the roof via a helicopter. At the main entrance there is a
grand stairway, an escalator and elevators. For air, the revolving door located at the main entrance acts as
a locking mechanism to prevent a phenomenon known as the stack effect, which occurs when the hot air
rises and the cool air falls in a tall building.

Geographic location subjects the hotel to severe weather conditions including strong winds and
occasional violent thunderstorms. Due to the structure’s proximity to its adjacent hotel resort, wind tunnel
testing was considered to ensure a safe design. wind speed of 45 meters per second, under the
recommendations of Dubai Municipality, was adopted for the design. Itself is not located in an earthquake
intensive zone. However, southern Iran which is only 100 miles away to the north is subjected to
moderate earthquake risk and in turn which could create tremors in Dubai if a seismic event were to occur
in Iran. To reinforce the structure from any potential swaying, two tuned mass dampers, weighing about 2
tonnes each, limit vibrations in the tubular steel mast that projects 60 m above the building.

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 The form of the hotel designed to symbolize Dubai's urban transformation and to mimic the sail
of a boat. Some people think the form of Burj Al-Arab looks like giant cobra,

2.2 Burj Al Arab Features

Several features of the hotel required complex engineering feats to achieve. The hotel rests on an
artificial island constructed 280 m (920 ft) offshore. To secure a foundation, the builders drove 230 forty-
meter-long (130 ft) concrete piles into the sand.

Engineers created a ground/surface layer of large rocks, which is circled with a

concrete honeycomb pattern, which serves to protect the foundation from erosion. It took three years
to reclaim the land from the sea, while it took fewer than three years to construct the building itself. The
building contains over 70,000 m3 of concrete and 9,000 tons of steel.

Inside the building, the atrium is 180 m (590 ft) tall.

Burj Al Arab is the world's third tallest hotel (not including buildings with mixed use). The
structure of the Rose Rayhaan, also in Dubai, is 11 m (36 ft) taller than Burj Al Arab.

2.3 Facility

A. Room

The hotel is managed by the Jumeirah Group. Despite its size, Burj Al Arab holds only 28 double-
story floors which accommodate 202 bedroom suites. The smallest suite occupies an area of 169 m2, the
largest covers 780 m2.

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 Suites feature design details that juxtapose east and west. White columns show great
influence.Bathrooms are accented by mosaic tile patterns.

The Royal Suite, billed at US$24,000 per night, is listed at number 12 on World's 15 most expensive
hotel suites compiled by CNN Go in 2012.

The Burj Al Arab is very popular with the Chinese market, which made up 25 percent of all
bookings at the hotel in 2011 and 2012.

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 B. Restaurants

There are two restaurant in the hotel. The first is Al muntaha (“The ultimate”), is located 200 m
above the Persian Gulf, offering the view of Dubai. It is supported by a full cantilever that extend 27m
from either side of the mast, and is accessed by panoramic elevator.

The second restaurant is Al Mahara (“The Oyster”) which is accessed via a simulated submarine
voyage, features a large seawater aquarium, holding roughly 990,000 L (260,000 US gal) of water. The
wall of the tank, made of acrylic glass in order to withstand the water pressure, is about 18 cm (7.1 in)
thick.

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 C. Ratings

While the hotel is sometimes described as "the world's only seven-star hotel", the hotel
management claims to never have done that themselves. In the words of a Jumeirah Group spokesperson:
"There's not a lot we can do to stop it. We're not encouraging the use of the term. We've never used it in
our advertising." According to the group, the "Seven-Star" notion was brought to being by a British
journalist who visited the hotels on a pre-opening press trip. The journalist “described Burj al Arab in her
as above and beyond anything she had ever seen and called it a seven-star hotel.”

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CHAPTER III

CONCLUTION

3.1 Conclution

Why Burj Al arab has high billed price for every suites? Based on the hotel design and location in
artificial island, Burj Al Arab builded as an iconic hotel for Dubai. It cost US$ 1 Billion to build the hotel,
not surprisingly if the hotel provide for high class people has high billed price to rent every suites. This
hotel has exclusive interior design. The interior for every suites follow the middle east pattern with unity
of gold color in which the room looks like very luxurious.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

faculty.arch.tamu.edu/media/cms_page_media/4433/BurjAlArab.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Arab