Hotel Sevilla
Photo · Fernando Marroquín, Zaickz Moz
A tranquil interior courtyard pool precedent by Zeller & Moye integrating raw historic masonry with clean water volumes and submerged steps.
- What we like about this project
- The full-width submerged stairs dissolve visually into the pale turquoise water.
Materials
- stone
- water
- timber
- plaster
Visual identifiers
- courtyard-pool
- submerged-steps
- weathered-stone-wall
- arched-timber-doors
Style tags
- minimalist
- historic-adaptive
- tropical
- textural
Visual tags
- courtyard
- water-feature
- historic-integration
- texture
- tranquil
- Geometry
- Rectangular pool basin integrated longitudinally alongside a weathered stone wall, terminated by an arched timber doorway.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic stone walls with integrated concrete pool basin.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human scale; pool width accommodates a single person descending the full-width steps.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight filtering through overhead foliage and washing across textured plaster and stone walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, blending cool water reflections with the warmth of aged stone and timber.
- Environmental context
- Enclosed interior or semi-outdoor courtyard space framed by aged historic masonry walls.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the foreground framing foliage down across the still water surface and submerged steps toward the arched threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of submerged steps contrasts against the vertical rustication of the stone wall and timber slats.
- Style reading
- Tropical historic minimalist intervention
- Program
- Hotel courtyard pool / wellness space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- stone, water, timber, plaster
- Visual identifiers
- courtyard-pool, submerged-steps, weathered-stone-wall, arched-timber-doors
- Style tags
- minimalist, historic-adaptive, tropical, textural
- Visual tags
- courtyard, water-feature, historic-integration, texture, tranquil
- Geometry
- Rectangular pool basin integrated longitudinally alongside a weathered stone wall, terminated by an arched timber doorway.
- Structural guess
- Load-bearing historic stone walls with integrated concrete pool basin.
- Spatial scale
- Intimate human scale; pool width accommodates a single person descending the full-width steps.
- Lighting
- Soft, diffused daylight filtering through overhead foliage and washing across textured plaster and stone walls.
- Atmosphere
- Serene and contemplative, blending cool water reflections with the warmth of aged stone and timber.
- Environmental context
- Enclosed interior or semi-outdoor courtyard space framed by aged historic masonry walls.
- Spatial experience
- The eye moves from the foreground framing foliage down across the still water surface and submerged steps toward the arched threshold.
- Composition rhythm
- Horizontal banding of submerged steps contrasts against the vertical rustication of the stone wall and timber slats.
- Style reading
- Tropical historic minimalist intervention
- Program
- Hotel courtyard pool / wellness space
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- architecture