Sketch

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Located in a small tourist village in the Italian Dolomites, this new-built 4-star hotel is Plasma Studio’s first new-built commission and became an exercise in developing cutting-edge design contextually and ‘bottom-up’ in order to produce a building that is closely related to its pastoral surroundings.

Evolutionary diagram

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The name Cristall together with abstract local material and landscape references was deployed as leitmotif for marketing and architectural form-finding- avoiding the common vernacular usually kitsch-based typologies.

External

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Looking at crystals as highly complex material organisations we developed the hotel as a series of stratas – an coherent tectonic that is highly elastic and transformable without losing its inherent logic. Hence the resulting form produced the maximisation of usable space in regard to the multiple planning laws and programmatic demands.

External

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This process produced a complex artificial topography that undulates over an extensive wellness & spa area, producing complex light, view and access relationships between inside and outside, above and below. In this way the building is fused with the landscape, coming out of it like a rock formation.

Night

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Bands of timber strips wrap around the volume and form its balconies and façade, then twist, turn and wrap through the interior rendering the lobby into a funnel-shaped ‘canyon’ framing the mountain-view, where inside and outside are collapsed.

South facade

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Twisting walls

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Cristal sticks

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Basement

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Interior

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Pool

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Lobby

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Plan

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Section

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Section

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