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Hotel Amarin

HOTEL AMARIN

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Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

ARCHITECTS
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MAIN CONTRACTOR
Kamgrad d.o.o.

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lea Pelivan, Toma Plejić

ELEVATORS
Lift Modus d.o.o, KONE d.o.o, Rok Pietri

ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE
Planetaris d.o.o., Natko Bilić

BUILDING PHYSICS
AKFZ studio d.o.o, Mateo Biluš

PLANETARIS D.O.O., NATKO BILIĆ
Radionica statike, Josip Galić, Branko Galić

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Teh Projekt Elektrotehnika D.o.o., Slobodan Mataija, Igor Ganić

MANUFACTURERS
Assa Abloy, Schüco, AGC, AMF, Appiani, Armstrong Ceilings, Arrmet, Caesar, Ceramiche Caesar, Cotto d'Este, FLOORGRES, FLORIS, Grupa Studio, Luks, Magis, Vitra

PHOTOGRAPHS
Robert Leš

AREA
27046.0 m2

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Val De Lesso 5, 52210, Rovinj, Croatia

CATEGORY
Hotels

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

Text description provided by architect.

From its peninsula, it looks out and curves toward Rovinj, Venice, distant seas horizons and the tiny island of Figarola.

The hotel has one movie theater, two beaches, three indoor pools, three hot tubs, four outdoor pools, four apartment suites, four saunas, five outdoor playscapes, five wellness rooms, six eateries and cafes, ten thematic indoor points for kids, and two hundred and seventy six double bedrooms.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

It welcomes families, wanderers and play, awakening and drawing them to belong to its large, intermingling territory on the seaside.

How to create a large hotel in which many diverse spaces feel integral and familiar ? In which, instead of consumption, people participate in leisure, and the experience of family vacation is intense and remembered.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

Private and public spaces are separated into two stacked groups. Public spaces are ground-level, while the rooms hover in the air. The public sphere has a vibrant character, the private sphere is contemplative.

The spaces between these two spheres are: curving tunnels, ramps in the air, a winding, levitating path, a fragmented staircase, a lobby with a reflecting garden and bar, a Mikado-like reception, and a Mediterranean blue net playscape.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

All of the public spaces are in direct contact with the terrain and its outdoor amenities, which are organized in informal ways and irregular forms, respecting program demands.

The character of the public sphere is dynamic, full of unexpected collisions, frames, games of perception and existing suggestive structures that sprout out from the ground.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

Rooms grow their own landscapes. It's busy down here and curiosity is rewarded as each wing reveals itself like pages of a pop-up book.

Outdoor spaces create colorful scenes with many activities happening simultaneously.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

New geometries, hypnotic landscaping and environmental graphics appear.

It's about motion too – dots flicker on roads, mirrors, and in planting arrangements.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

Corridors escape outdoors, leading you with them, while they become paths carving out continents of flowers, hills and playgrounds.

The outside appearance of the ground floor is characterized by a continuous reflective elevation, fragmenting the reflections of the forest, creating a kaleidoscopic effect and additionally widening the panorama of the large affiliated landscape.

The private sphere, with beautiful views of the Rovinj archipelago, is shockingly white.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

It is neutral, simple, mysterious and shaded from the sun with a transparent outdoor „curtain“.

Playful elements on the wall inspire imagination and whiteness lets you think.

This private, levitating object follows the shoreline with its organic shape and secures distant views towards the open sea and forest.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš

The dynamic sequence of spatial and atmospheric excerpts activates children and parents in exploring intriguing games of perception, relationships between the whole and its parts, shapes, proportions, materials, light, shadow, scent and reflections.

AMARIN

A camper for 1000 people. Jagged underneath, airy up above.

Taking you up its winding ramps, or dropping you off below in a land of caves.

Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš


Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš


Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš
Hotel Amarin
© Robert Leš


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Elevations
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Cross Section


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Fourth Floor Plan
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Entrance Level


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Atlas of Public Spaces
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Ground Floor Plan


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Private Realm
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Cross Section


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Site Plan Diagram
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Site Foyer
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Public Realm

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