Lunawood

Maxx Royal Kemer Hotel / Baraka Architects

The project is located in Kiriş, Kemer, Antalya, Turkey, on a 150,000-square-meter site that forms a threshold between developed and natural areas, nestled on a steep hillside surrounded by forest, bays, and a long beach. The site is divided into sub-areas defined by unique flora, hills, remnants of the former Kiriş World Hotel (1987), and small beaches, with the overarching concept emphasizing the absorption and concealment of the landscape rather than its display. The hotel comprises 291 rooms, including 133 suites in the main building, 84 hillside family suites, 59 lagoon villas on the beach, and 15 beach villas, supported by six à la carte restaurants and four bars. The hillside family suites were designed with a “patching” approach, terraced along the slope to integrate with the forest and climate, employing natural stone and wood to blend seamlessly with the surroundings. Rather than creating an eye-catching landscape, the design preserves existing trees and traces of the previous construction, allowing the terraces and dense flora to conceal and merge the buildings into the topography. Wall detailing reinforces this integration: 14 cm thick natural stone walls, delicately stacked along concrete frames with slate pieces in varied tones, create a tactile, masonry-like appearance that strengthens the connection to the landscape, ensuring the construction feels like a natural extension of the hillside rather than an intrusion.

Holiday Home

House in Uxes / terceroderecha arquitectos

The house is located on a rural plot conditioned by existing guidelines, The house opens in its common areas to the south from where you will enjoy the best views. On the other hand, the presence of a road, elevated compared to the natural level of the plot, with a high traffic, reinforces that intention to turn to the landscape and turn its back on neighbors and road, demonstrating a duality of scales in the exterior appearance of the house. The areas of the day use program on the ground floor of the house is resolved, with the clear intention of enabling direct contact with the land, with the bedrooms on the upper floor. The need to build a compact house given the size and shape of the plot doesn't prevent to generates a volume that disintegrates its different rooms into different spaces, all of which are connected by a central hall as a connector of the house. This allows a compact scheme with the absence of corridors. The areas of greatest contact with the plot are located in the lower part of the ends of the arms, this being reflected with the combination of different materials. The studio and the kitchen shows the clear relation with the outer space, nuanced by folding or unfolding the wooden lattices, while the living room, through the terrace that finishes it, also has that mutation capacity, adapting itself to the needs of the user, thanks again to the movement of the external lattices. Finally, the garage, following the Galician tradition, can be used to carry out domestic work, being possible its total or partial opening by means of the fold of the external wood cladding.

Beloura House IV / Estudio Urbano

In a plot without great interest, nor characteristics that make it more remarkable, one can see, in the distance, the ocean and the palace of Sintra.Through the 2000m2 of land, a complex and extensive program for a single family dwelling was distributed; spreaded over 3 floors, the lower floor with a big leisure area, the ground floor comprehending the social areas and the upper floor reserved for the rooms. From the street the volume of the upper floor appears as a large box, suspended in the void and resting on long walls that extend from the interior. On the ground floor wide windows open the facade allowing the desired reading of continuity of the wall. The look lingers on and stretches over the distant landscape. On the upper floor, the rooms are protected from the outside by the expressive wooden brise soleil allowing the desired quietness. The garden privileges native species and seeks to create different environments that could be an extension of the interior space on the outside. The passage of time will bring the necessary consolidation of the planted species.