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Hotel Hospes Palma
Hotel Hospes Palma
Calvià, Spain
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Other Projects by EQUIP Xavier Claramunt
Hotel Hospes Palma
Calvià, Spain
Project Featured on May 07, 2016
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2010
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
Origin regained
The sea, the seashore, the trees
approaching the seashore... And the human being. We can imagine once upon a
time when we humans were active part of the harmonious life of the island. But
know things have changed, and the original agreeable relation between island
and man has turned into an arrogant control of the second over the island.
Along the different stages for
refurbishing and extending the Maricel Hotel, we have been pursuing a
recovering of memorable and desirable original scenarios. On the first
intervention we tried to make clear that the sea was there. Now, with this
extension, the aim is to regain the trees and dry stonewalls that have been
part of the environmental history of Majorca.
Regain the sea
Maricel Hotel was built in 1948 as
one of the first hotels specially designed for tourists. Thanks to his
privileged situation, it was easy to extend its facilities towards the sea with
terraces as a giant’s stair to the water. On this stage, the building first opened
itself over areas more related to these terraces and the sea, using a series of
arcades to enlarge the basement and focus it on the rocky seashore. You enter
the hotel and find yourself intertwined with a scenography of sliding doors and
evading walls, rhythmically placed to allure the sea into the building. This
new arrangement treats the sunlight in a way that triggers you to walk with
increasing intensity towards the sea.
This first aim was to recreate an
atmosphere not far from the little caves and rocky shelters that are easily
found all over the Mediterranean coast. Make clear that the Mediterranean is
there, through filters, terraces and the new orientation for the swimming pool.
Regain the sea.
Regain the forest
The extension is to be built on two
plots placed just in front of the original building. The main issues are how to
connect, across the public street, and how to deal with the urban surroundings.
In that direction, the extension seeks to stress the importance of the original
building as main entrance and to establish an access to the new areas capable
of generating an alternative context to the existing urban development.
The new situation is rearranged as a
valley that makes its way recovering the technique of the so call marjades, the
terraces used on traditional agriculture activities in Majorca. Creating these
new marjades, the valley moves ahead connecting the new areas to the main
building.Dry stonewalls deal with the soil on
how to settle on the new areas. Sometimes, they both agree simply with slopes,
sometimes, likewise the terraces that the main building uses as a solarium on
its way to the sea, the valley sculpts the soil with marjades. Solid and
vernacular dry stonewalls that give a desirable environment, detached from the
constructions neighbouring the extensions.
Finally, we manage to stay just
aware of trees and sky. Recovering the forest, the forest that grows along a
dreamed brook driving us away from the sea. As a casual path, we walk on a
winding course that turns here and there carving the soil to allow entrance to
the new buildings. We enter close to the ground but immediately we climb up
those buildings conceived as vantage points where to place the rooms oriented
to the sea. Regaining the forest, but again the sea.
The sea, the seashore, the trees
approaching the seashore... And the human being. We can imagine once upon a
time when we humans were active part of the harmonious life of the island. But
know things have changed, and the original agreeable relation between island
and man has turned into an arrogant control of the second over the island.
Along the different stages for
refurbishing and extending the Maricel Hotel, we have been pursuing a
recovering of memorable and desirable original scenarios. On the first
intervention we tried to make clear that the sea was there. Now, with this
extension, the aim is to regain the trees and dry stonewalls that have been
part of the environmental history of Majorca.
Regain the sea
Maricel Hotel was built in 1948 as
one of the first hotels specially designed for tourists. Thanks to his
privileged situation, it was easy to extend its facilities towards the sea with
terraces as a giant’s stair to the water. On this stage, the building first opened
itself over areas more related to these terraces and the sea, using a series of
arcades to enlarge the basement and focus it on the rocky seashore. You enter
the hotel and find yourself intertwined with a scenography of sliding doors and
evading walls, rhythmically placed to allure the sea into the building. This
new arrangement treats the sunlight in a way that triggers you to walk with
increasing intensity towards the sea.
This first aim was to recreate an
atmosphere not far from the little caves and rocky shelters that are easily
found all over the Mediterranean coast. Make clear that the Mediterranean is
there, through filters, terraces and the new orientation for the swimming pool.
Regain the sea.
Regain the forest
The extension is to be built on two
plots placed just in front of the original building. The main issues are how to
connect, across the public street, and how to deal with the urban surroundings.
In that direction, the extension seeks to stress the importance of the original
building as main entrance and to establish an access to the new areas capable
of generating an alternative context to the existing urban development.
The new situation is rearranged as a
valley that makes its way recovering the technique of the so call marjades, the
terraces used on traditional agriculture activities in Majorca. Creating these
new marjades, the valley moves ahead connecting the new areas to the main
building.Dry stonewalls deal with the soil on
how to settle on the new areas. Sometimes, they both agree simply with slopes,
sometimes, likewise the terraces that the main building uses as a solarium on
its way to the sea, the valley sculpts the soil with marjades. Solid and
vernacular dry stonewalls that give a desirable environment, detached from the
constructions neighbouring the extensions.
Finally, we manage to stay just
aware of trees and sky. Recovering the forest, the forest that grows along a
dreamed brook driving us away from the sea. As a casual path, we walk on a
winding course that turns here and there carving the soil to allow entrance to
the new buildings. We enter close to the ground but immediately we climb up
those buildings conceived as vantage points where to place the rooms oriented
to the sea. Regaining the forest, but again the sea.
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