Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects

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  • Principal: Davide Macullo
  • Project Architect: Aileen Forbes-Munnelly, Aileen Forbes-Munnelly
  • Design Team: Michele Alberio, Andrea Carlotta Conti, Andrea Caminada, Federica Buffetti, Samantha Capoferri, Lorenza Tallarini.
  • Client: Dogus Group
  • Client Representative: Drees & Sommer GmbH
  • Timber Construction Consultants: Lauber Ingenieure
  • Sleeping Suites: Sonami
  • Sanitary Engineer: JOP Gebäudetechnik
  • Fire Protection Consultant: Simon Rubin, Lauber Ingenieure
  • Timber Construction: Kost Holzbau
  • Sauna And Steambath Planner: Wellness Partner
  • City: Weggis
  • Country: Switzerland
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Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography, Aerial View Photography, Waterfront
© Roberto Pellegrini

Text description provided by the architects. The true beauty of a built place is proportional to the positive influence it has on people. When we wonder why we feel so good in a place, so ‘at home’, it is because its dimensions, proportions and tensions have been designed for us.

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography
© Fabrice Fouillet

Chenot Palace Weggis, located in one of the most beautiful and historic places in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Lucerne, framed by the Alps, is designed for human well-being. What the hotel offers is continuous sense of feeling good, being at ease. It is this sense we give to our architecture by understanding it as a link between the DNA of a place and its future.

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Fabrice Fouillet
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Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography
© Fabrice Fouillet

Constructed between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2020, this flagship project extends over 20’000 sqm and includes the addition of a new timber guest room block, a state-of-the-art medical spa and wellness area and the renovation of existing hotel buildings. 

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Fabrice Fouillet
Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Roberto Pellegrini

The view of the charming turn-of-the-century hotel from the lake remains unchanged from before the new development; the new guest room building has been set back above the entrance and its volumes staggered in such a way that it is not ever fully visible. 

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography
© Roberto Pellegrini

The spa volume is covered with gardens and on arrival there only hint of spaces that might lie inside is across a series of bonsai courtyards. The timber cladding of the new guest rooms, spa and pool area plays a game of shadows and creates a material landscape embedded in the green gardens while the uniting of the old hotel buildings with the new elements is a synthesis of architectural language with simplicity in materials to ensure that the senses are not overwhelmed. 

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography, Courtyard, Facade
© Fabrice Fouillet

The language of the new adopts the symbolic traits of the historical buildings, recalling the proportions and character of the vernacular, expressed in a contemporary way, combining the organic with the geometric, all in chromatic harmony. The complex comprises 97 hotel rooms, of which 52 are in pre-existing buildings and 45 in the new timber construction.

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects - Exterior Photography
© Alex Teuscher

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Cite: "Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects" 06 Sep 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/946818/chenot-palace-weggis-health-wellness-hotel-davide-macullo-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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