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Mattia Preti Hotel
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Mattia Preti Hotel, Valletta
MarsamxettoHarbour will
site a new, sea-front hotel, integrating a contemporary building with a 16th
century period house; believed to have been occupied by Valletta’s
renowned artist Mattia Preti.
Perched
on the edge of Salvatore Bastion, the project consists of two main
interventions. Firstly it involves the restoration and conversion of the Mattia
Preti House into the hotel’s common areas on the ground floor and four luxury
suites on the first floor. Secondly, the two infill volumes - one adjacent to
the house and one overlying it - will effectively harmonize Masamxetto’s
skyline when viewed from across the harbour, whilst supplying the hotel with a
further 35 guest rooms and a penthouse suite.
A pedestrian, stepped walkway will
detach the new construction from the old, revealing the corner façade of the
old house, while providing public access from Marsamxett Road to Old Theatre Lane. Glass bridges will link the two
buildings above the public walkway, while a glazed façade on Old Theatre Lane will introduce the energy of a
busy hotel atrium into an otherwise very narrow and dreary alleyway.
With
the site lying directly above the Valletta-Sliema ferry dock, a proposed public
lift (accessible from the street while lying in the hotel’s footprint) will
connect Marsamxett Road to
the seafront below. This will facilitate vertical access to guests, visitors
and locals arriving from across the harbour. The adjacent and currently
derelict water polo pitch will be converted into the hotel’s lido and beach
facilities, possibly also reinstating the defunct Valletta
water polo club.
The
visual integration with the adjacent buildings and fortifications, particularly
when viewed from across MarsamxettoHarbour,
required an aesthetic that had to be primarily centred on the use of local
limestone. Old and New are integrated in their materiality and separated by
distinct voids. The new stepped walkway and a recessed floor will create this
separation in the form of strong ‘shadow gaps’ in order that both remain
clearly identifiable.
We wanted to ensure views from the
rooms, and yet were preoccupied with antagonistic, large glazed apertures. This led to the
creation of a delicate, sculptural skin; which satisfied both concerns.
Approaching the hotel from either side of Valletta’s peripheral road at first
presents a façade built entirely out of stone. The façade’s tactile geometry,
borrowed from the nearby bastions, reveals the apertures only when one stands
directly in front of the building. From across the harbour, the prevailing
areas of stone and the vertically proportioned openings merge happily with the
surrounding windows and gallarija cityscape.
This
new experience of the city, we are very hopeful, will promote Valletta as a
top international destination, while restoring the sophistication and
innovative motivations of its original enlightened architects and creators.
MarsamxettoHarbour will
site a new, sea-front hotel, integrating a contemporary building with a 16th
century period house; believed to have been occupied by Valletta’s
renowned artist Mattia Preti.
Perched
on the edge of Salvatore Bastion, the project consists of two main
interventions. Firstly it involves the restoration and conversion of the Mattia
Preti House into the hotel’s common areas on the ground floor and four luxury
suites on the first floor. Secondly, the two infill volumes - one adjacent to
the house and one overlying it - will effectively harmonize Masamxetto’s
skyline when viewed from across the harbour, whilst supplying the hotel with a
further 35 guest rooms and a penthouse suite.
A pedestrian, stepped walkway will
detach the new construction from the old, revealing the corner façade of the
old house, while providing public access from Marsamxett Road to Old Theatre Lane. Glass bridges will link the two
buildings above the public walkway, while a glazed façade on Old Theatre Lane will introduce the energy of a
busy hotel atrium into an otherwise very narrow and dreary alleyway.
With
the site lying directly above the Valletta-Sliema ferry dock, a proposed public
lift (accessible from the street while lying in the hotel’s footprint) will
connect Marsamxett Road to
the seafront below. This will facilitate vertical access to guests, visitors
and locals arriving from across the harbour. The adjacent and currently
derelict water polo pitch will be converted into the hotel’s lido and beach
facilities, possibly also reinstating the defunct Valletta
water polo club.
The
visual integration with the adjacent buildings and fortifications, particularly
when viewed from across MarsamxettoHarbour,
required an aesthetic that had to be primarily centred on the use of local
limestone. Old and New are integrated in their materiality and separated by
distinct voids. The new stepped walkway and a recessed floor will create this
separation in the form of strong ‘shadow gaps’ in order that both remain
clearly identifiable.
We wanted to ensure views from the
rooms, and yet were preoccupied with antagonistic, large glazed apertures. This led to the
creation of a delicate, sculptural skin; which satisfied both concerns.
Approaching the hotel from either side of Valletta’s peripheral road at first
presents a façade built entirely out of stone. The façade’s tactile geometry,
borrowed from the nearby bastions, reveals the apertures only when one stands
directly in front of the building. From across the harbour, the prevailing
areas of stone and the vertically proportioned openings merge happily with the
surrounding windows and gallarija cityscape.
This
new experience of the city, we are very hopeful, will promote Valletta as a
top international destination, while restoring the sophistication and
innovative motivations of its original enlightened architects and creators.
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