SUSTAINABLE: HERITAGE-KARAVANSARA HOTEL IN SIEMREAP CAMBODIA
Architects: MimANYstudio and REALarchitecture
Location: 662 STREET 25 , ARCHA ,WATBO VILLAGE
Design Team: Minh Tran, Joshua Levine,Daniel, Marta, Laura - Year: Dec 2011 – Footprint :973m2
P Structural Engineer: Mr Eardon Engineer
Services Engineer: Mr Eardon
Photographs: Qa
The Butterfly Boutique hotel is a project in Siem Reap inspired by the stacking of stones in traditional Khmer religious architecture. It also it takes clues from the modern container architecture, where individual pieces are stacked in different ordering systems to create the space.
In this case, we’ve taken the basic module of one room and creatively arranged them to evoke the romantic stacked stones slightly shifting over time at the temples of Angkor.
The corridors and the passageways are created by the negative space left over by these boxes. Moving among the shifting rocks, there is a different relationship to views. Proximity to open space and proximities to buildings. One is led to meander through the project as if meandering through a series of found archeological site in the middle of Angkor.
The effect is not about the efficiency of moving from place to place, but about the journey. By taking a metaphor from the great local attraction, the temples of Angkor, we have sited the project and made it contextual. And yet it looks nothing like temple architecture. We’re not copying space; we’re metaphorically transforming space.