Hesperia Hotel Resort
Margarita Island, Venezuela
Given the exceptional characteristics of the place, the project design underscores the presence of the mountains and the sea from any point of the resort.
We didn’t want to create an urban atmosphere, but quite the opposite. The hotel could be understood as a continuous ground level in the form of a large garden where all the restaurants, social areas, breakout spaces, and swimming areas are placed. A series of hillocks gradually frame our gaze hiding part of the hotel complex so that visitors always feel surrounded by vegetation.
The open character of the ground level lets the situation and dimension of the services and common spaces adapt to more specific demands in the future.
The bridge-like rooms of the hotel let the garden spread beneath them. Their bay is broken down to intertwine the buildings with the vegetation and achieve spaces on a more intimate scale. The communal open spaces connects us, at this level, with the garden that stretches below. The passage beneath these bridges will always be a shade-sun-shade interplay.
In some areas rooms are placed at ground level creating small private gardens protected from glances by the earthwork landscaping.
Project data
Area
108.020 m2 Gross Floor Area, 260.750 m2 Landscape
Year
2007
Status
Competition
Client
Private – Hesperia Hoteles
Team
Main Architect: Carme Pinós
Architects: Samuel Arriola Clemenz, Roberto Carlos García, Cristian Ramírez
Structural Engineering: INDUS Ingeniería y Arquitectura, S.L.
MEP Engineering: INDUS Ingeniería y Arquitectura, S.L.