Hotel Inntel by WAM Architects
Can this be real? A madcap fairytale of a 12-story building is now part of the skyline of Zaandam, a city near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. The new Inntel Hotel, designed by WAM Architects, looks like a pileup of traditional Dutch houses. The idea for its design came up with the nature of hotels in town centers. Hotels should be like a “home from home”: the 160 bedrooms of Inntel offer a little house to everyone, rather than an anonymous space.
Aside of all its apparent craziness, the hotel is a rational building, with an interior carefully planned. For its construction, the core of the hotel is made of concrete, while the “houses” are timber and clapboard, making many of the room really do feel like authentic and individual houses.
All the facades are based on traditional Zaanstad houses. The building also doesn’t rise out from nowhere, but from a new area where traditional streets are lined with neo-traditional buildings., making these streets and buildings root the hotel in an urban flowerbed that seems all of a piece.
Photograph: Roel Backaert
[WAM Architects]
Via [archdaily] & [the guardian]
April 5, 2010 - Category: Architecture, Building, Facade, Hotel, Latest - Posted by: Delphine - Comments: 4
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