New concept of luxury. 5* Hotel, Restaurants and Leisure Center in Badajoz by Clavel Arquitectos

Project description by Clavel Arquitectos

The project is about the remodeling of 2800 sqm of the existing building that contains a 5-star hotel, restaurants and leisure spaces in Badajoz. The intervention focuses on the connection of the central atrium with the leisure areas and the entrance hall to the hotel on the ground floor. This atrium originally did not have a specific use in the building, but was instead a passage area between closed spaces.

The hotel reception operates independently of the rest of the program. It has been designed as a “shell” that opens to the path on the way to the access to leisure spaces, a continuous envelope with a shade of black Marquina marble. Using the same material both on the floor and on the walls and ceiling with an undulating perimeter, a large bar longitudinally accompanies the entire lobby, integrating the hotel reception with a small waiting area where you can have a good coffee.

The central atrium underpins the building, reaching it either through the hotel reception or through the side façade access. It is about the transformation of the interior volume of a four-story atrium, breaking the existing symmetry and playing with the creation of platforms that energize the space and fill the previously empty volume with content. The platforms create spaces between floors, colonizing the volume and splitting the staircase, making the climb much more enjoyable and fluid.

The main materials used in the atrium are light and mirror, a large lamp made up of various methacrylate rings that meander the space and envelop the user, making them ascend between stairs and platforms full of reflections. The vertical surfaces covered continuously by mirror multiply the effect.

The lamp hangs more than 7 meters high, generating a cascade of illuminated rings to which the railings of the platforms and first floor are added, further enhancing the enveloping effect of the light. Under the lamp there is a small cocktail bar that encourages meeting and enjoying the space.

Everything flows between the different rooms and levels, inviting the user to discover each corner within a light circuit that accompanies him not only in the leisure areas, but also to the restaurant and terrace. The light lines of the atrium materialize in the rooms in profiles that integrate led light fixed to the wall.

The leisure area gives way to the "red room restaurant", a dynamic space where meals and drinks are served under careful lighting. Two areas are distinguished: a bar area that welcomes you with a waving perimeter lamp with a shaded plant mantle red and 240 points of golden light. Table area with corrugated red walls and ceiling, a second level of depth that provide low opacity curtains that reveal the shadows of the vegetation placed between the tables.

At the end of the leisure tour on the first floor, you reach a terrace with a bioclimatic pergola and a multipurpose space, where activities associated with both the restaurant and leisure complex are carried out.