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Project: Sixty Hotel, Riccione/Italy
Third prize of Cateory "Hotels/Spas/Catering facilities"
This hotel in Riccione on the Adriatic embodies the colourful and fashionable "see and be seen" ethos of this coastal resort, with its young clientele and lively nightlife. Superimposed on the 1950s frontage of the existing hotel is a playful new outer skin perforated by free-form oval openings of varying sizes, which resemble speech bubbles in a comic, as if referencing the street talk outside. This lively sense of fun is carried through into the hotel interior. All 40 rooms have been individually designed by different artists. Webcams in every room allow guests to communicate with other hotel occupants. Abandoning traditional notions of intimacy and privacy, the architects have sought to overcome the isolation normally experienced by hotel guests during their stay within the four walls of their room.
The jury's verdict:
"The transformation of the 50-year-old frontage into a double-skinned façade, whose outer layer draws formal inspiration from comics and creates interesting and surprising lighting effects inside the building, was felt by the jury to be particularly successful."
Website: www.studio63.it
