Caso do Conto. Oporto.

Hace tres años el estudio de arquitectura portugués Pedra Líquida recibió el encargo de crear un nuevo concepto de hotel – Casa do Conto, Arts & Residence – dando nueva vida a una hermosa casa del siglo XIX de la ciudad de Oporto. El proceso de restauración fue casi quirúrgico. Por desgracia, en marzo de 2009, pocos días antes de la apertura del hotel, el edificio sufrió un terrible incendio. Este suceso motivó a los autores del proyecto a reconstruirlo con un mayor interés, si cabe, que la primera vez.

De esta manera, el hecho de recrear la estructura que había sido destruida fue una oportunidad para que un nuevo hotel, y la memoria de la casa original renacieran de las cenizas, como el Ave Fénix.

Hotel Ayre en Barcelona

Enfrentarse a un solar a la sombra de la Sagrada Familia, una obra clave del maestro catalán Antoni Gaudí, es una oportunidad única en la vida de un arquitecto. El estudio  Wortmann Architects se han enfrentado al reto.

The Waterhouse at South Bund

Chinese architects NHDRO have transformed this disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building’s stripped concrete and brick walls while adding a new Corten steel extension on the roof.

The boutique hotel fronts the Huangpu River and looks across at the gleaming Pudong skyline. The architectural concept behind NHDRO’s renovation rests on a clear contrast of what is old and new. The original concrete building has been restored while new additions built over the existing structure were made using Cor-Ten steel, reflecting the industrial past of this working dock by the Huangpu River. NHDRO’s structural addition, on the fourth floor, resonates with the industrial nature of the ships which pass through the river, providing an analogous contextual link to both history and local culture.

Mountain Lodge on Sognefjorden

 Slideshow: a swimming pool, spa, cinema and games room will be hidden in the rock beneath the main cluster of buildings at this Norwegian hunting lodge and hotel by London architects Haptic.

Pulpit Rock Mountain Lodge

The new Pulpit Rock mountain lodge, the winning design competition entry in 2004, accommodates twenty-eight guest rooms, a café, a restaurant and a conference room. The lodge is situated at the trail-head leading up to The Pulpit Rock, the sheer cliff cantilevering over the Lysefjord.

Site conditions/placement The lodge’s placement and massing is well fitted into the immediate environment with its undulating terrain, its roof profile drawn from adjacent peaks. The volume is furthermore bent around a rock outcropping creating a gesture to the main entrance. It has an access path going around the hill to the access plateu in front of the entrance. The roof is overhanging at different places to cover outdoorspaces and terraces which are connected to the restaurant and conference room.

Fasano Las Piedras Hotel

Las Piedras Fasano is a hospitality complex in Punta del Este, Uruguay. It combines private homes, hotel bungalows and other amenities - spa, equestrian center, golf and polo fields and a 3-km beach stretch on the riverside of Arroyo Maldonado -, spreading across vast 480 hectares dominated by a dramatic and dazzling landscape: arid, rocky, with sparse low vegetation.

Sport Hotel

The new Vogtland Arena not only catapulted Klingenthal back into the league of the finest ski jumping facilities in the world but also rejuvenated its elite sport school. The pupil numbers have subsequently doubled and the Governor launched a design competition to extend the school’s overnight stay capacity. m2r was declared the winner out of an anonymous design competition. The project started on site in spring 2010 and was completed in July 2011.

The Bird’s Nest by Inrednin Gsgruppen

This huge nest with a retractable staircase by Swedish designers Inrednin Gsgruppen forms part of a hotel in the trees in northern Sweden.Part of the Tree Hotel, The Nest is supported by existing trees and the exterior is covered in twigs

Flowerbed Hotel by MVRDV

Architects MVRDV have unveiled proposals for a giant greenhouse on the outskirts of Amsterdam with a flower-covered hotel inside.The Flowerbed Hotel will be located beside a theme park devoted to flowers in the town of Aalsmeer.

Wadi Resort by Oppenheim Architecture + Design

Florida-based practice Oppenheim Architecture + Design have released these images of their proposals for 47 desert lodges at a resort in Wadi Rum, Jordan.The lodges will be carved directly into the sandstone cliff face and the building elements will be made from rammed earth and cement mixed with local red sand.

Hotel Consolación by Camprubí i Santacana

Spanish architects Camprubí i Santacana have completed a hotel consisting of timber-clad rooms set on a rocky ridge near Teruel, Spain. Hotel Consolación features ten “kubes” – cabins set in the landscape – plus communal facilities housed in a converted hermitage building.

Concurso Hotel Paineiras / Estudio América

Durante Junio se anunció el concurso para la selección preliminar de el Complejo – Hotel Paineiras, el que consistió en infraestructura cercana a los 14,000 mt2 a situarse en el parque nacional de Tijuca, uno de los centros turísticos mas importantes de Río de Janeiro y por lo demás declarado Reserva de la Biosfera de la Unesco en 1991. Este complejo se pensó para albergar un programa turístico con estaciones de transferencia, hotel y centro de convenciones entre otros. El concurso fue promovido por un Instituto de Preservación de la Biodiversidad, el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente y organizado por el Instituto de Arquitectos de Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.

Tree hotel in Harads

Tree hotel in Harads (2008-2010).A tree hotel in the far north of Sweden, near the small village of Harads, close to the polar circle. A shelter up in the trees; a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, a 4x4x4 meters box clad in mirrored glass. The exterior reflects the surroundings and the sky, creating a camouflaged refuge.

Hotel Hofgut Hafnerleiten, Brunndobl

Based on the model of the lower bavarian landscape with its strewn settlements, six new buildings were arranged in the existing topographie of the so called 'hofgut hafnerleiten' in a very decent and unostentatious way.

Eco-resort Six Senses Con Dao, en Vietnam, ganador del premio MIPIM 2012.

Viendo las imágenes que nos llegan del primer y único resort de cinco estrellas ubicado en el paradisíaco archipiélago de Con Dao, no nos extraña que se haya llevado para Vietnam el prestigioso premio MIPIM 2012, en la categoría de Mejor Diseño en Resorts y Hoteles. Los artífices de este oasis ecológico son los arquitectos del reconocido estudio parisino AW2, en colaboración con Indochina Land.

Resumen de la Charla de Hoteles sostenibles en la UAX

Para los que no pudisteis asistir a la charla que se impartió ayer en la UAX o queréis volver a repasar de forma somera lo que se comento sobre hoteles sostenibles, os dejamos de forma resumida los temas principales de esta charla.

The Park Hotel / Skidmore Owings & Merrill

© Bharath Ramamrutham

Architects: Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Location: Hyderabad, India
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 531,550 sqf
Photographs: Robert Polidori, Pallon Daruwala, Bharath Ramamrutham

New York NY – Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM), the New York-based architectural firm, has recently completed The Park Hotel Hyderabad, the flagship hotel for The Park Hotel Group. This 531,550-square-foot, 270-room hotel infuses a modern, sustainable design with the local craft traditions, and is influenced by the region’s reputation as a center for the design and production of gemstones and textiles.Roger Duffy, SOM’s Partner in Charge of the project, says, “This building signals our commitment to creating a design that simultaneously felt at home among the exuberant vernacular architecture of Hyderabad, while simultaneously incorporating the latest sustainable strategies and technologies.”

H2Otel / Powerhouse Company + RAU

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RAU and Powerhouse Company developed H2Otel, a luxurious and completely sustainable hotel for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The project, a prototype for luxury hotel typologies, is shown at the National Design Triennial ‘Why Design Now?’ at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

IntroductionHow to make a hotel tower more sustainable? As a typology, the modern hotel is at odds with the concept of sustainability. Most of the time they are empty and unused, yet they have to be fully accessible, comfortable and pleasurable all the time. Guests usually enter their rooms in the evening. Large glass planes provide stunning views but also heat up the rooms when no one is there. The biggest energy consumer in hotels is usually the cooling system. So, why are the facades of most highrises the same on all sides, despite their different exposure to sunlight? Apart from that, modern hotels are increasingly build according to global formulas in brownfield locations. How do we create a local sense of place while using the particular efficiency if the hotel typology?

Víctor Olgyay. Manual de diseño bioclimático para arquitectos y urbanistas

Víctor Olgyay es el autor de numerosos libros, entre los que destaca “Arquitectura y Clima. Manual de diseño bioclimático para arquitectos y urbanistas”.

La arquitectura bioclimática es un tipo de arquitectura donde el equilibrio y la armonía son una constante con el medio ambiente. Se busca lograr un gran nivel de confort térmico, teniendo en cuenta el clima y las condiciones del entorno para ayudar a conseguir el confort térmico interior mediante la adecuación del diseño, la geometría, la orientación y la construcción del edificio adaptado .

Hotel Aliah / Hiperstudio + Arkiz

Courtesy of Hiperstudio + Arkiz

The Aliah Project, a hotel for a green World Cup, designed by Hiperstudio + Arkiz has been awarded as the winner of a competition organized by Aliah, a company which promotes sustainable development through practices and businesses that are profitable with a positive socio-environmental impact. A sustainable luxury hotel complex for the 2014 World Cup, their design serves as a model of sustainable architecture by disseminating innovative concepts that promote a green lifestyle. More images and architects’ description after the break.