GRAFT
Hotel Q
Berlin, Germany
"Hotels are homes in time where for a short while the visitor enters a world where he inhabits a new identity. They allow him a new story, and the anticipation of another future."
GRAFT
The new "design hotels” are unique experiences of architectural spaces and cosmopolitan hubs for the traveler. They can seduce you to experiment with old habits, and inspire new rituals.
Photo: arcspace
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
For Hotel Q Graft laid out a landscape that changes the classic
spacial cannon through the topographical folding of the program.
“The tectonical logic of elemented construction distorts itself, blends into hybrid zones with double functional occupancies. The inclined area is simultaneously a separating wall but also usable furniture, the lifted floor is circulation surface or a space, emerged from underneath the skin of the house.”
GRAFT
Drawing courtesy GRAFT Berlin
Image courtesy GRAFT Berlin
The flow of this “landscape” creates generous connections where otherwise a typical dissection into singular spaces would prevail. The topographical treatment of the design problem maximizes program utilization and creates a continuous flow of form and space. The visitor will find a narrative that departs from conventional perceptual experiences and allows ambiguous readings of the space.
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
The inhabitant becomes a participant in this landscape, changing his interaction with architecture and furniture, walking up the walls in order to sit on top of the crowd, or sinking into tubs, like hot springs, in the middle of the room.
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
The super cool spa, with sauna and steam room, also features massage and treatment rooms as well as a sandy beach.
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Photo: Hiepler Brunier architekturfotografie
Hotel Q is located on Knesebeckstrasse, around the corner from the buzzing Kurfürstendamm. The Hotel opened in April 2004.
Drawing courtesy GRAFT Berlin
Site Plan
Sketch courtesy GRAFT Berlin
Sketch
Sketch courtesy GRAFT Berlin
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Sketch courtesy GRAFT Berlin
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Total area: 2,300 square meters
Architects: GRAFT
Lars Krückeberg
Wolfram Putz
Thomas Willemeit
Project manager: Wolfgang Grenz
Project Team:
Johannes Jakubeit
Michael Rapp
Sascha Ganske
Stephanie Bünau
Leo Kocan
Lennart Wiechell
Sven Fuchs
Nikolas Krause
Helge Lezius
Contractor: Wanzl & Co Bauträgergesellschaft KG
Photographed by Hiepler Brunier
February 22, 2010