Gautefall Hotell Renovation Concept
Norway, 2012. Gautefall Hotell Renovation Concept. A remarkable simple and efficient make-over for a 1970′s tourist hotel.
Situation
Tourist hotel with lack of maintenance needs a new vision and strategy for future development.
Target
Create a unifying approach that brings together all buildings and boosts its appearance to generate lots of new traffic.
Action
Money talks: be smart instead of lazy. Grab together all different buildings through two large unifying balconies and connect them by a huge roof. Dematerialize the existing though the use of color and use natural wood for new additions. Oh and by the way, only use local construction materials.
Result
An extreme hotel-make-over. A perfect example of how much you achieve do with so little. Incredible there is so much hidden value in the existing complex.
Did you know?
This design was made to investigate future possibilities of the hotel and exemplifies Norway’s hotel business today.