LANDHOTEL SILVESTAR 2016 -

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description luxury resort
category commercial, residential, hospitality
location Motovun, Croatia
built area 7.400 m²
design team

Stephan Buerger, Demetra Katsota, Maria Chassioti, Leonidas Kalpaxidis, Myrto Tsarouchi

consultants

Munte Project (structural engineers), AEM Tehnika, Ured Ovlastenog Inzenjera Elektrotehnike, Nora Inzenjering d.o.o. (m/e engineers), Zdenko Kovac d.i.a. (local architect), Oberressl & Kantz ZT-GmbH (project manager, structural engineers)

model

Taras Diachun

model photographs

Leonidas Kalpaxidis

renderings

Atelier Crilo

client Vinum Optimus & MF Gruppe GmbH
design year 2016
completion year -

The LandHotel is located in the heart of the Istrian peninsula, on a south facing property punctuated by endogenous vegetation, olive and cypress trees and cascading retaining stone walls. The scheme embodies an architecture truly rooted in the land. The stone walls begin in the landscape and continue in the interiors to frame the atrium’s ziggurat-like space and to organise the programmatic spaces that unfold cantilevering, recessed, linear or contained, each level assuming the shape it needs for the minimum excavation and impact on the environment.

Parking and support spaces are accommodated on level -01. Upon a ‘U’ shaped level ±00, the reception, multipurpose shop-cellar and administration facilities open up to the hotel piazza. On the piazza’s forth side, the offset insertion of a ‘found’ object, a reconstructed ‘Konoba’ ‘completes’ the enclosure. Level 01, linear in plan, accommodates on either side of the dramatic atrium space, a spa with fitness and conference facilities. The interiors programmatically extend onto level outdoor terraces in the preserved olive grove. On level 02, below the horizon of the translucent green canopy, the linearity of the plan shifts and recesses onto the next height line. On the western wing, rooms are linearly arranged. On the eastern wing, the bar unfolds as a bridge between the courtyard and the ascending olive grove, and the breath-taking perspective of the Valley below. On the eastern wing, the restaurant offers generous indoor sitting and extensive shaded terraces for outdoor dining. On level 03, the shift in plan continues with hotel rooms arranged across both wings. On level 04, rooms are accommodated on the eastern wing. On the peak of the sloping terrain the six LandVillas linearly offset to one another are inserted into walled-in enclosures.

The Piazza is intended as an event space and viewing platform. Its spatial experience is defined by juxtapositions: between the ‘found’ retaining walls and ‘Konoba’ and the ‘constructed’ of the programmatic platforms. Between the roughness of the stone and the subtlety of the polished reflective surfaces of the glazed façade and hovering canopy. The geometric spacing of the vineyard rows, the rational grid of the olive groves, continuous through the landscape of Motovun, notionally project across the horizon of the translucent canopy, its slender columns and hanging vegetation. As the sun tracks across the sky, the light changes and the visual appearance of the hotel does with it. As a result, the LandHotel appears different, based on the time of day and season one visits.


Title Year Type Locaction Country
RADISSON RESORT SKIATHOS 2020 hospitality Skiathos
PENINSULA 2020 residential, hospitality Paros Greece
VILLAS A 2019 residential, hospitality Costa Navarino ,  Messinia Greece
OKZT HUB 2018 offices Klagenfurt Austria
RESTAURANT THALERSEE 2020 public, hospitality Graz Austria
VILLAS B 2019 residential, hospitality Costa Navarino ,  Messinia Greece
MAYRHOFEN STATION 2018 public Mayrhofen Austria
HOUSES A·2 2014 residential, hospitality Paros Greece
FERANT GARDEN APARTMENT 2017 residential Ljubljana Slovenia
CING LABORATORY BUILDING 2018 public Nicosia Cyprus
STUDENT STUDIOS PATRAS 2007 residential Patras Greece
PX SIX THRESHOLDS 2012 public Athens Greece
HOUSE E 2016 residential Artemida Greece
HOUSE L 2016 residential, research Antiparos Greece
LANDHOTEL SILVESTAR 2016 commercial, residential, hospitality Motovun Croatia
AS IF 2014 residential, research Mykonos Greece
HOUSE B 2014 residential Crete Greece
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GRAZ 2015 public Graz Austria
HOUSE T 2016 residential Antiparos Greece
HOUSE H 2012 residential Corfu Greece
KURA CULTURAL CENTRE 2013 public Mingachevir Azerbaijan
THREE SPACES 2013 exhibition Athens Greece
KUBAN RIVERSIDE HOTEL 2013 commercial, hospitality Krasnodar Russia
STUDENT STUDIOS THESSALONIKI 2017 residential Thessaloniki Greece
HOUSE A+B 2008 residential Paros Greece
COOP BANK HEADQUARTERS 2012 commercial Nicosia Cyprus
PX THREE CORNERS 2012 public Athens Greece
AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR RESIDENCE 2013 residential Athens Greece
COASTAL DOMAINS 2017 exhibition Athens Greece
ANNENHEIM CUBES 2012 residential, hospitality Treffen Austria
FERLACH TECHNICAL SCHOOL 2016 public Ferlach Austria
CASPIAN SEA RESORT 2012 public, residential, masterplan, hospitality Baku Azerbaijan
6 VOIDS: PXATHENS 2012 exhibition Venice Italy
BELGIAN EMBASSY 2009 public Athens Greece
CAUCASUS CONFERENCE CENTRE 2012 public Qabala Azerbaijan
GERMAN SCHOOL ATHENS 2017 public Athens Greece
LAKE APARTMENTS 2012 residential Bodensdorf Austria
PX ATHENS 2012 public, masterplan Athens Greece
LARNACA AGORA 2011 public Larnaca Cyprus
NOVARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2018 public Vienna Austria
OFFICE A 2010 commercial Athens Greece
HBWBC SCHOOL 2010 public Vienna Austria
DASOUPOLI HIGH SCHOOL 2010 public Nicosia Cyprus
RATHAUSPARK 2009 public Vienna Austria
TOWNHOUSE K 2009 residential Nafplion Greece
VILLA W1 2008 residential Corfu Greece
HELLENIC PARLIAMENT 2008 research Athens Greece
KYRIAZI DEVELOPMENT 2008 commercial, residential Athens Greece
GERMAN DEVELOPMENT 2008 masterplan Sofia Bulgaria
SUPERSTORE V 2008 commercial Athens Greece
MELINA PAVILION 2007 exhibition Athens Greece
GLEISDORF DEVELOPMENT 2007 residential Gleisdorf Austria
HELEXPO PAVILION 2007 exhibition Thessaloniki Greece
VILLA S 2006 residential Vienna Austria
VERTICAL ATTICA 2006 masterplan, research Attica Greece
SCHLOSSMUSEUM 2006 public Linz Austria
EXHIBITION 102x 2006 exhibition Athens Greece
HOUSE M 2004 residential Athens Greece
SKYWALK BRIDGE 2004 public Vienna Austria
HELLENIKON PARK 2004 masterplan Athens Greece
DARNITSA DEVELOPMENT 2003 commercial Kiev Ukraine
TRANSITIONAL INTERSTICES 2003 residential Ano Liosia Greece