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Architects: Atelier Daniel Florez
- Area: 400 m²
- Year: 2024
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Lead Architect: Daniel Florez
Text description provided by the architects. In 2022 we started the transformation of the Kilombo Vilas Hotel, a resort on a stunning beach of the Northeast of Brazil populated by dolphins and turtles. The strategy of the interventions was based on two actions with a sustainable approach. The first design intervention was a poetic pavilion of three leaves of timber and bamboo in which the projected shadow during the day and the warm artificial light at night remind every user of the need of wild preservation, turning the touristic experience into an educational experience as well. This second intervention, “The Scissors”, was focused in transforming the whole Hotel into a Net Zero Energy complex, while reorganizing the entrance areas, parking, reception, Drop-Off, Orchard and Delivery areas coherently with the new activities hosted at the pavilion. The scissors consisted on a roofing matrix of the same structural element repeated within the same distance and supporting 400m2 of solar panels, which generates 30% more energy that what the whole Hotel consumes.
