Copacabana Hotel
A coastal hotel design by Triptyque utilizing stepped, heavily planted terraced slabs to integrate a large massing into a rocky marine landscape.
- What we like about this project
- A cantilevered rooftop pool extends dramatically out toward the ocean horizon.
Materials
- concrete
- glass
- tropical-planting
- water
Visual identifiers
- terraced-balconies
- coastal-setting
- tropical-planting
- stepped-massing
Style tags
- tropical-modern
- biophilic
- organic-massing
Visual tags
- biophilic
- coastal
- hospitality
- terraced
- tropical
- Geometry
- Terraced, stepped structural levels cascading down a sloping coastal site, integrating deep planters at every floor level.
- Facade system
- Deep cantilevered concrete slabs forming continuous landscaped planters and balconies.
- Structural guess
- Cantilevered reinforced concrete floor plates supported by internal structural core and columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale hotel complex spanning multiple stepped tiers with human figures shown on the lower pool deck for scale.
- Lighting
- Bright coastal daylight casting low-angle morning or late afternoon sun across the terraces against a hazy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and resort-like, blending dense tropical greenery with raw coastal geology and open sea views.
- Environmental context
- Coastal cliffside overlooking the ocean with prominent mountain peaks rising in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building merges with the coastal landscape, offering continuous horizontal terraces open to ocean views and tropical vegetation.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal cascading layers rhythmically punctuated by dense vertical palm trees and structural balcony slabs.
- Style reading
- Tropical biophilic modernist architecture
- Program
- Hotel and resort complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- concrete, glass, tropical-planting, water
- Visual identifiers
- terraced-balconies, coastal-setting, tropical-planting, stepped-massing
- Style tags
- tropical-modern, biophilic, organic-massing
- Visual tags
- biophilic, coastal, hospitality, terraced, tropical
- Geometry
- Terraced, stepped structural levels cascading down a sloping coastal site, integrating deep planters at every floor level.
- Facade system
- Deep cantilevered concrete slabs forming continuous landscaped planters and balconies.
- Structural guess
- Cantilevered reinforced concrete floor plates supported by internal structural core and columns.
- Spatial scale
- Large-scale hotel complex spanning multiple stepped tiers with human figures shown on the lower pool deck for scale.
- Lighting
- Bright coastal daylight casting low-angle morning or late afternoon sun across the terraces against a hazy sky.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and resort-like, blending dense tropical greenery with raw coastal geology and open sea views.
- Environmental context
- Coastal cliffside overlooking the ocean with prominent mountain peaks rising in the background.
- Spatial experience
- The building merges with the coastal landscape, offering continuous horizontal terraces open to ocean views and tropical vegetation.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal cascading layers rhythmically punctuated by dense vertical palm trees and structural balcony slabs.
- Style reading
- Tropical biophilic modernist architecture
- Program
- Hotel and resort complex
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture