Ba'ra Hotel

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango

Ba'ra Hotel

Plan:b Arquitectos

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa

CLIENT
H Station/massai Constructora

CONSTRUCTION
Massai Constructora

INTERIOR DESIGN
Sandra Moura Arquitectos

LOCATION
João Pessoa, Brazil

DESIGN TEAM
Cristian Camacho, Laura Kate Correa, Sebastián González Daniela Álvarez, Natasha Álvarez

PHOTOGRAPHS
Alejandro Arango

AREA
6197 m²

YEAR
2022

CATEGOTY
Hotels

English description provided by architects.

Joao Pessoa is a tropical, coastal city with a regular, flat urban fabric that develops along an extensive tourist beach.

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango

The Ba'ra hotel, with 126 rooms of variable areas -22, 32, 52, and 72m2- is located in a block facing the beach and accessed from Avenida Cabo Branco.

This street is a vehicular axis parallel to the beach, a cycle path, and a recreational space for walkers, athletes, and popular festivals.

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango

Faced with these climatic and urban qualities, and a municipal regulation that only allows a height of five levels for constructions near the beach, we proposed a building with a 'U'-shaped plan, thus generating a semi-public central space available for hotel events related to the urban life of the city and the beach.

In this way, visitors can access the hotel on foot, crossing a space covered by metal pergolas and hanging gardens and then going down to the lobby and restaurant areas in a naturally lit basement.

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango

We arranged all the rooms symmetrically along the 'U' shape, generating some that look outwards and others that look towards the central void.

Additionally, we allow each room to have an ocean view using staggered diagonal cantilevers.

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango

On the last level, we designed a central bridge over the metal pergolas, which leads to two terraces with a restaurant and the pool, spaces from which users observe both the central void and the intense activity of the city and the sea.

Finally, each room has practicable windows to allow cross ventilation and metal shutters to control the sun and maintain privacy.

Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango


Ba'ra Hotel
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Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango


Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango
Ba'ra Hotel
© Alejandro Arango


Ba'ra Hotel
Section - AA
Ba'ra Hotel
Section - BB
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Section - CC
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Section - DD


Ba'ra Hotel
Plan - Ground floor
Ba'ra Hotel
Plan - First floor
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Plan - Second floor
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Plan - Third floor


Ba'ra Hotel
Plan - Terrace
Ba'ra Hotel
Elevation - North
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Elevation - West
Ba'ra Hotel
Elevation - East