Through the years, Medellín, and particularly Provenza, has turn into one of many epicenters of tourism in Colombia. As architects, we’ve the good accountability of offering worth not solely aesthetically but in addition environmentally and socially in each intervention we undertake.
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Lodge El Zarzo was born from the concept of responding to the realm’s resort demand, going past merely providing extra rooms to the tourism sector. With this undertaking, we goal to create a small oasis in the course of town. The undertaking is positioned in Provenza, very near different vital and nationally and internationally acknowledged accommodations. The good problem was to have a differentiating factor, so we opted to design a boutique resort with only a few rooms, specializing in particulars and at all times aiming to create a heat and welcoming ambiance in all areas.
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The resort has seven ranges, distributed as follows: a basement degree that serves all technical wants, a primary degree with a restaurant and foyer, 4 ranges of rooms, and a rooftop terrace with a bar. The bar, impressed by a classic fashion, has the choice of being open or closed due to a retractable material pergola, permitting the house to vary over time and host totally different actions. The constructing is positioned between two get together partitions, so for the pure air flow and lighting of the areas, we might solely depend on the japanese and western facades.
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We began from the premise of putting the resort’s service areas, comparable to shafts, elevators, and stairs, in direction of the get together partitions to maximise the facades and be sure that every room has a direct connection to the outside. The primary and final ranges of the undertaking are areas we’re giving to town, with a restaurant and a bar open to the general public, permitting not solely resort company but in addition guests to take pleasure in them. The massive facade frames totally different views; every degree has variations in its home windows, incorporating arches and porticos that enrich the inside house. From inside, each window presents a view of a backyard, and past that, town and the mountains.
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Using supplies of their most noble type and the cautious integration of vegetation make the constructing an extra connection level within the metropolis’s ecological community. The slabs turn into an enormous container of greater than 100 tropical species. The programmed drip irrigation system supplies the minimal and obligatory quantity of water to this small ecosystem in a rational and environment friendly approach.
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This intervention additionally helps keep thermal consolation contained in the constructing, lowering the necessity for air con and, due to this fact, the constructing’s carbon footprint. With Lodge El Zarzo, we search to ship an architectural work that meets present wants whereas contemplating environmental components, aiming to generate a constructive influence on town and future initiatives.
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