The Moxy Downtown Oakland - Hotel

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Award Winner : Lowney Architecture

Architectural Excellence : The Moxy Downtown Oakland, a 7 story, 173 key hotel boasts several notable firsts: first hotel in downtown Oakland in 20 years, first modular project completed in the downtown core, and first modular Moxy hotel completed in the U.S. Utilizing the city’s opportunity zone investment program, the hotel anchors the developing KoNo neighborhood in the Arts District and fosters new opportunities to boost the local economy. The building consists of five levels of wood, factory built rooms over two levels of site built rooms, common space, and public tenant space. A visually porous ground level façade with operable roll up garage doors paired with an open lounge enhances the pedestrian experience, providing direct, yet organic connection to the street. The exterior and common spaces celebrate Oakland’s vibrant art scene and surrounding art deco environment with an outdoor installation by Faulders Studio, colorful murals from local artist Bud Snow, and curated pieces from Creative Growth.

Cost Energy Effectiveness : The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the project’s timeline, with issues stemming from supply chain management, federal and local site restrictions, and changing work processes on the site. The team came together in effort to reduce cost and schedule impacts by making strategic design changes and sequence shifts with construction activity. One way the team collectively reduced cost impacts on the project was creatively and strategically concentrating the thin brick areas on the exterior of the building where the brick look would be most impactful, and installing more readily available, less expensive products elsewhere.

Design Firm Name : Lowney Architecture and RSP Architects

Engineering Firm Name : DCI Engineers and W.L. Hickey Sons

Green Building Description : The developer chose modular design for its sustainable construction benefits, which include generating less on site construction waste and increasing the building’s energy efficiency, indoor air quality and acoustics, all elements important in a hospitality project.

Installer Firm Name : ATCO Structures and Logistics

Occupied Date : 4/1/2021

Owner Firm Name : Graves Hospitality and Tidewater Capital

Production Start Date : 9/30/2019

Project Location City : Oakland

Project Location State Name : CA

Technical Innovation : While the two story podium was under construction in Oakland, the King Standard, King Accessible, and Bunk-bed rooms were fabricated in Idaho. Interior finishes were installed in each unit before shipment to control quality and streamline construction. This allowed the project team to take advantage of just in time delivery and installation. Once complete, the units were shipped to California and set on site. The engineering team coordinated and detailed the modular unit set direction, modular floor framing, modular stud and shear walls, and modular ceiling framing plans. To accommodate a small site and maximize the number of units, the structural engineers designed 11’-1” wide modular unit types with short shear walls. The stacked modular units create the overall seismic system: floor and ceiling sheathing for the diaphragms, plus shear walls for the vertical elements. The structural engineering team accomplished the design criteria of forming an articulated building exterior.

Total Square Feet : 72000