The Xarma Hotel is designed as a
modular, transportable and inmediate construction site.
The whole construction takes place
around a courtyard, in coexistence and respect, to guide private outdoor space
(terrace room) to nature.
The service unit is located on the
north side of the courtyard, guiding the lounge- bar - restaurant to the plaza
and with a extension to it by a porch or terrace. In the other three sides we
put as many other communitarian rooms to which to can enter through the
porch-runner. The rooms are grouped in twos allowing internal communication
between them. Each room has a private outdoor terrace-porch.
The entire assembly is formed by
modules of 3.50 x 7.00 m base and 3.65 m high modules in the service unit and 3.15
m high in the room modules. The modules of the porch terrace
lounge-bar-restaurant are 3.50 x 3.50 x 3.20 m, and the runner porch and porch
- terrace rooms are 3.50 x 3.50 x 2.90 m.
The modules are constructed by a
hollow structure, supporting an outer coating formed from chipboard wood chip
cement, forming a ventilated façade thermal insulating and metal sections
inside the walls of pints or plasterboard panels coated and wooden modular
ceilings wood fiber and wood or ceramic.
The module covers are conceived as
a flat green roof with roof drainage through hollow metal sections of the
structure of the vertical structure of each module
The inspiring design principles
for this proposal have been:
1. Contribution to sustainability
through a modular, prefabricated and transportable construction.
2. Minimal impact on the
environment. Only holes in the ground for foundation insulated ducts and
facilities are needed. The building is separated from the floor for a stilts.
The vegetation covered we compensate with the green roofs. We integrate the existing
vegetation within the set.
3. Orientation, lighting and
ventilation. All living areas and relationship are facing east, south or west.
All rooms have cross ventilation and natural lighting. Proper orientation
allows direct input of energy from the sun.
4. Using alternative energy using
photovoltaic cells and solar panels to produce electricity and hot water.
Completing modules porch-terrace lounge- bar-restaurant and porch-terrace room
with glass enclosures we could create greenhouse enclosures.
