Joao Pessoa is a tropical, coastal metropolis with a daily, flat city material that develops alongside an intensive vacationer seashore. The Ba’ra resort, with 126 rooms of variable areas -22, 32, 52, and 72m2- is situated in a block dealing with the seashore and accessed from Avenida Cabo Branco. This road is a vehicular axis parallel to the seashore, a cycle path, and a leisure house for walkers, athletes, and standard festivals.
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BA’RA Lodge’s Idea Design
Confronted with these climatic and concrete qualities, and a municipal regulation that solely permits a top of 5 ranges for constructions close to the seashore, we proposed a Ba’ra resort with a ‘U’-shaped plan, thus producing a semi-public central house obtainable for resort occasions associated to the city lifetime of the town and the seashore. On this method, guests can entry the resort on foot, crossing an area lined by steel pergolas and hanging gardens after which taking place to the foyer and restaurant areas in a naturally lit basement. in Ba’ra resort We organized all of the rooms symmetrically alongside the ‘U’ form, producing some that look outwards and others that look in the direction of the central void.
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Moreover, we enable every room to have an ocean view utilizing staggered diagonal cantilevers. On the final stage, we designed a central bridge over the steel pergolas, which results in two terraces with a restaurant and the pool, areas from which customers observe each the central void and the extraordinary exercise of the town and the ocean. Lastly, every room has practicable home windows to permit cross air flow and steel shutters to regulate the solar and preserve privateness.
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Challenge Information:
Architects: Plan:b arquitectos
Space: 6197 m²
12 months: 2022
Images: Alejandro Arango
Lead Architects: Felipe Mesa, Federico Mesa
Design Staff: Cristian Camacho, Laura Kate Correa, Sebastián González Daniela Álvarez, Natasha Álvarez
Shopper: H station/Massai Constructora
Building: Massai Constructora
Inside Design: Sandra Moura arquitectos
Metropolis: João Pessoa
Nation: Brazil
