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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Hotel Pino Nature in Bosnia & Herzegovina by Studio Zec

 
June 23rd, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Studio Zec

Sarajevo is a longitudinal city, with heterogeneous architecture, surrounded by mountains that have hosted the Winter Olympics in 1984. Alongside the coffee house cult, ubiquitous in public space, there is a tradition of recreation on the surrounding mountains – \”the lungs of the city\”. Ten minutes by car from the city center, Hotel Pino is situated on the slopes of Mount Trebević on 1070 m altitude, built on the ruins of Sarajevo’s favorite hiking resort – Prvi Šumar (in English: First Forester).

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

  • Architects: Studio Zec (Amir Vuk – Zec, Sanela Belko, Darijo Bojanic, Belma Jusufovic)
  • Project: Hotel Pino Nature
  • Location: Near Sarajevo-mountain Trebevic, Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Photography: Damir Daitbegovic
  • Client: RELAX tour Sarajevo
  • Structural Engineer: Isak Medić (Calypso d.o.o.), Sarajevo
  • Gross Internal Floor Area: 2100m2
  • Start On Site: 2014
  • Completion: 2015

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Compositionally speaking, Hotel Pino consists of two bodies: a primary horizontal cube in which public facilities are housed and vertical volume – the tower, which contains exclusively guestrooms. Circulation of guests dominates in the main cube that contains an access point, a spa with swimming pool, conference rooms, kid playrooms and a restaurant. Guest rooms are located along the perimeter of the main building and they receive daylight through the addition of roof spikes. Responsible way of building on a mountain requires adaptation to climate and geographical conditions. Lessons from the local vernacular architectural language were the key inspiration in the form finding of the exterior appearance of the building.

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Steep spikes on the facade are an interpretation of roofs of mountain village houses and the silhouettes of pine trees. The main building volume rests on a stone cladded base – again citing tradition and the tripartite division of the composition of the object – legs / body / head – stone / wood / glass. Wooden shingles, from our previous experiences proved to be sustainable, durable and economical covering material on the mountain. Scratched below the surface, the support structure of the building is made of reinforced concrete – the dualism of these two materials is further interpreted through the interior – warm wooden surfaces communicate with rough, rustic concrete. Previously described tactility of materials goes side by side with the use of photo-wallpaper – the image is still returning to architecture as a scenographic and decorative moment.

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

How to, as an architect, bring warmth and intimacy into a large structure? The recipe lies in the subdivision of a large interior into smaller, to human perception appealing but connected sceneries – Intimacy begins in your own corner – to each his corner.

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

Image Courtesy © Damir Daitbegovic

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Image Courtesy © Studio Zec

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