Consolación Hotel Built on the outskirts of the city of Matarraña (Spain), next to the chapel of the Consolation and the famous Cami-no De Santiago. In designing the study from Barcelona, all-girl Camprubì the Santacana Arquitectes.It is a sort of diffused hotel, consisting of a central core, which are concentrated in the services and common areas, and ten rooms built separately. The hotel, which takes its name from the nearby chapel, has a strong natural vocation.
The rooms are not classic rooms, but individual cubes — Cubes – Clad in wood, located about 100 meters from the central nucleus of the hotel, on a cliff reached by a natural garden of rosemary and thyme. Each of 36 square architecture simple, almost minimalist. Black slate floors, bath tub sunk into the ground, suspended fireplace and reading area. Each Cube has large windows and a terrace facing west, set among the mountains, bordered by pine trees, with no building on the horizon, in total privacy.
All spaces of the central core are versatile and are interconnected so as to generate a sense of global unity. In this way, the recreation area can be a lounge or a meeting room and reception area transformed by night into a bar. The kitchen, which usually can not be accessed, in this case is a meeting point and is open to all hours of the day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in an old barn converted into a dining room, stone, wood, steel and glass. The interior design is characterized by simplicity and comfort. Most of the fixtures is an integral part of the same architecture. Predominate warm and noble materials such as slate, pine and Wang, both in rooms and in the core.
Consolation is a small hotel made only twelve rooms. Ten are Cubes and two occupy the first floor of the old hermit’s dwelling, a building of Baroque origin, coeval with the church, whose chapel is, however, the fourteenth century. The project is complemented by a pool that dominates the landscape in complete privacy and tranquility.
Camprubí the Arquitectes Santacana have designed the Hotel Consolation inspired by the works modernist architect Craig Ellwood, and the Germanic rationalism of Mi es van Der Roche.
