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Sotelia Hotel

Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič

SOTELIA HOTEL

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ARCHITECTS
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Miran Kambič

AREA
15200.0 m²

YEAR
2006

LOCATION
Podcetrtek, Slovenia

CATEGORY
Hotel

Text description provided by architect.

Wellness Hotel Sotelia fills the gap between two existing hotels, both of them not hiding their different architectural origins. 

Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič

New hotel is not trying to summarize samples from nearby structures but rather clearly distances itself from the built environment and connects, instead, with its natural surroundings.

In design process primary concern was to avoid immense building mass, like the one suggested in the client's brief, which would have blocked the last remaining view of the forest.

Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič

The volume is broken up into small units arranged in landscape-hugging tiers.

As a result, the four storey 150-room building appears much lower and smaller then this description would suggest.

The specific shape of the hotel was dictated by the folds in the landscape. The unique structures offers passer-by some strong spatial experiences:

Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič

from the front, the building is perceived as a two-dimensional set composed of parallel planes placed one behind the other; a walk around the hotel reveals entirely different views of the timber facade, from a plane vertical wooden slats to a rhythmic arrangement of balconies and wooden terraces.


Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič
Sotelia Hotel
© Miran Kambič


Sotelia Hotel
Site Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Section Diagrams


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T +386 1 4386740
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Nazorjeva 6A, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia