Golden A' Design Award Winner 2023
contemporary alpine architecture, hotel extension, timber cladding, vertical slat facade, warm cedar tones, anthracite aluminum framing, corner glazing, LED perimeter lighting, cantilever roofline, fieldstone base, grey ashlar, traditional chalet, pitched roof vernacular, wooden balconies, twilight photography, blue hour, lavender sky, rose gradient, amber horizon glow, emerald hillside, pastoral landscape, coniferous trees, mountain setting, hospitality architecture, material dialogue, old and new juxtaposition, modernist intervention, warm white illumination, horizontal emphasis, oblique geometry, asymmetrical composition, atmospheric perspective, matte timber finish, natural stone texture, residential scale, welcoming ambiance, sophisticated restraint, alpine modernism, sustainable design sensibility, crafted details, luminous edges
The morphology of the Hotel Villa Madonna extension was determined by the purpose of identifying meaningful relationships with the natural context. This approach has allowed the adoption of an architecture that, while strongly differentiating stylistically and linguistically, manages to converse harmoniously with the more traditional character of the building to which it is juxtaposed. The intervention relates to the existing building by interpreting the basic compositional role using only technical materials that would, however, resume the logic of tradition in mountain buildings.