Hotel Dips & Drops Flachau
An alpine resort exterior precedent demonstrating how precast concrete panels and gabled roof forms can be detailed for a contemporary mixed-use hotel and sports hub.
- What we like about this project
- Vertical timber-slat screen transitions smoothly between the gabled roof volumes.
Materials
- precast-concrete
- glass
- metal
- wood
Visual identifiers
- gabled-roof
- precast-concrete-panels
- recessed-balconies
- retail-glazing
Style tags
- contemporary
- alpine
- vernacular-modern
Visual tags
- alpine
- hospitality
- mixed-use
- facade-rhythm
- gabled
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled volumes step across the site, combining precast concrete panel cladding with deep recessed balconies and fully glazed ground-floor retail frontages.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete panel rainscreen with integrated recessed balconies and punched strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with precast exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story hospitality and retail hub scaled harmoniously to surrounding alpine resort architecture.
- Lighting
- Early morning or dusk twilight illumination from interior warm lighting casting a strong glow through the windows against a cool blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and crisp, balancing heavy monolithic precast cladding with warm interior glow.
- Environmental context
- Alpine resort setting with distant mountain silhouettes and neighboring traditional buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach offers a welcoming public interface at ground level with large shop windows, while upper-tier hotel rooms open behind rhythmic, protected balconies under gabled roofs.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal balcony bands intersecting vertical concrete wall joints and sloped roof lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine vernacular architecture
- Program
- Hotel and sports hub (Bike and Ski Hub)
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- precast-concrete, glass, metal, wood
- Visual identifiers
- gabled-roof, precast-concrete-panels, recessed-balconies, retail-glazing
- Style tags
- contemporary, alpine, vernacular-modern
- Visual tags
- alpine, hospitality, mixed-use, facade-rhythm, gabled
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical gabled volumes step across the site, combining precast concrete panel cladding with deep recessed balconies and fully glazed ground-floor retail frontages.
- Facade system
- Precast concrete panel rainscreen with integrated recessed balconies and punched strip windows.
- Structural guess
- Reinforced concrete frame with precast exterior cladding panels.
- Spatial scale
- Three-story hospitality and retail hub scaled harmoniously to surrounding alpine resort architecture.
- Lighting
- Early morning or dusk twilight illumination from interior warm lighting casting a strong glow through the windows against a cool blue sky.
- Atmosphere
- Welcoming and crisp, balancing heavy monolithic precast cladding with warm interior glow.
- Environmental context
- Alpine resort setting with distant mountain silhouettes and neighboring traditional buildings.
- Spatial experience
- The approach offers a welcoming public interface at ground level with large shop windows, while upper-tier hotel rooms open behind rhythmic, protected balconies under gabled roofs.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal balcony bands intersecting vertical concrete wall joints and sloped roof lines.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine vernacular architecture
- Program
- Hotel and sports hub (Bike and Ski Hub)
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture