Grand Hotel in South Tyrol
An alpine resort precedent by Snøhetta featuring rhythmically articulated arched timber facades that harmonize with a dramatic mountainous setting.
- What we like about this project
- The arched structural grid scales down progressively toward the ground level to frame porous pedestrian connections.
Materials
- timber
- glass
- stone-base
Visual identifiers
- arched-colonnade
- timber-clad
- stepped-massing
- alpine-resort
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- timber-architecture
Visual tags
- hospitality
- alpine
- arch
- timber
- contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Low-slung, terraced volumes stepping up across the landscape with deeply recessed structural grid facades defined by repeating round arches.
- Facade system
- Deeply recessed column-and-arch grid forming continuous loggias and balconies across the multi-story facade.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber or concrete frame with heavy timber exterior cladding and structural colonnade.
- Spatial scale
- Large resort-scale multi-story hotel buildings dwarfed by vast mountainous landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight with low-angle warmth emanating from recessed interior balconies and ground arches.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, blending monumental architectural rhythm with natural alpine tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Alpine valley meadow foreground, dense evergreen and deciduous forest midground, and large hazy mountain peaks in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The buildings sit low within the wide meadow context, offering rhythmic frames that transition between the open landscape and warm interior illumination.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing punctured by a dense, repetitive grid of tall arched openings across every floor.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist hospitality architecture
- Program
- Hotel / Resort
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glass, stone-base
- Visual identifiers
- arched-colonnade, timber-clad, stepped-massing, alpine-resort
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, timber-architecture
- Visual tags
- hospitality, alpine, arch, timber, contextual-architecture
- Geometry
- Low-slung, terraced volumes stepping up across the landscape with deeply recessed structural grid facades defined by repeating round arches.
- Facade system
- Deeply recessed column-and-arch grid forming continuous loggias and balconies across the multi-story facade.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber or concrete frame with heavy timber exterior cladding and structural colonnade.
- Spatial scale
- Large resort-scale multi-story hotel buildings dwarfed by vast mountainous landscape.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused overcast daylight with low-angle warmth emanating from recessed interior balconies and ground arches.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and grounded, blending monumental architectural rhythm with natural alpine tranquility.
- Environmental context
- Alpine valley meadow foreground, dense evergreen and deciduous forest midground, and large hazy mountain peaks in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The buildings sit low within the wide meadow context, offering rhythmic frames that transition between the open landscape and warm interior illumination.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal massing punctured by a dense, repetitive grid of tall arched openings across every floor.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist hospitality architecture
- Program
- Hotel / Resort
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture