Disney breaks ground in Hawaii
As we reported last week, yesterday marked the official groundbreaking for Disney’s much anticipated new Vacation Club resort in Hawaii. Our colleagues over at the terrific DVCnews.com website have the full press release for you. Usually these are pretty boring, but this one provides some nice hints of how beautiful this resort can be.
Additionally, Hawai‘i’s aloha spirit will influence the many intricate details for which Disney resorts are famous, with stories woven into the architecture, interiors, art, graphics and three planned signature gardens all brought to life through carefully selected colors, patterns, materials and forms. Wood, thatch, lava stone and coral will be among the materials represented in the resort’s two 15-story guestroom towers, each oriented perpendicular to the ocean to maximize ocean views from the strategically angled guest rooms. Façade murals will add to the distinctive look of each tower and will begin to portray some of the stories and legends of the islands.
At the heart of the resort, an open-air lobby building — dubbed Hale Aloha — will draw its design inspiration from a traditional Hawaiian canoe house, visually connecting families to the sea and beyond. Window designs, wall graphics and other details will welcome families with tales of adventure, myth, legend and more, while twin streams flow through the building before uniting as a single cascade into the center garden below.
What makes this so exciting is that there seems to be an awful lot of detail and research going into the design here. And when Disney does that, it usually results in something extremely impressive. Just from this description, it seems as though we have a design and theme that may be on par with some of Disney’s most impressive, like the Animal Kingdom Lodge.
