The Franta Group has won the first prize to build the Wisła hotel complex project, a set of five wood-clad pavilions located in the southeast area of the city, in an enviable natural setting with breathtaking views.

The main objective of the project has been to value the landscape and not let the architecture dominate the context of the place and its beauty. In this way, the building grows towards the ground to comply with the extensive program, limiting its growth in height and visual impact.
The separate pavilions are born from the intention of the Franta Group, led by Maciej Franta, to move away from the form of a massive and concentrated building. The different modules refer to wooden huts that rise organically in the clearing of the mountain.

The project is a modern synthesis between the most innovative architecture and regional constructions and their materials, linked to natural and sustainable obtaining. The program comprises a total of five individual blocks with five levels above ground and four underground.
 

Description of project by Franta Group

Idea

The main idea of the designed facility was to depart from the current design of contemporary hotels in the Silesian Beskids and to place the facility in the landscape in such a way that, while fulfilling the extensive program, it would not dominate the rescaling of the context of the place and the beauty of the surrounding landscape. For this reason, we decided to depart from the form of a concentrated building in one strong block in favor of a balanced architecture of a complex of hotel pavilions broken into modules. The main inspiration for the formation of the team was the reference to wooden mountain huts standing freely in a mountain glade. Therefore, we have proposed the architecture of the pavilions as a modern synthesis of the cubature of wooden regional architecture characterized by slants, wood and proportions, and linking it functionally with an underground storey covered with a green roof in the form of a multifunctional meadow.

Program and function

The project includes the construction of five hotel pavilions with two hundred apartments, spa zones, restaurants, cafes and a complex of additional sports and recreational functions, shops and spaces for children, relaxation and viewing terraces.

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Franta Group.- Maciej Franta.
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Magdalena Orzeł-Rurańska, Anita Majowska, Michał Pietrucha, Damian Ludwig.
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Antrans.
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Area
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19130.99 sqm.
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Dates
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2021.
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Wisła, Poland.
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Maciej Franta (born in 1983) estableshed the Frantagroup studio, in Poland. He is graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology Krakowska and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated doctoral studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology.

Laureate of nationwide and international architectural competitions, including the Center for Education and Sport in Mysiadło (SARP international competition 2008 - 1st prize); Local government kindergarten in Sułkowice (SARP Competition 2013 - 1st prize), Building of the forest arboretum in Syców (2006 - 1st prize), Competition for the development of a housing complex in Zabrze (2019 - 1st prize). Winner of the distinction in in the competition: the Małopolska Voivodeship Award Stanisław Witkiewicz 2018.
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