Montenegro: Inspired by Fort Mamula

These are basic renderings of a concept for a small, high-end sustainable hotel.

Only eight large suites with stunning and breathtaking west views of the Boka Bay and the Adriatic and to the east, towards inland, plains, and plateaus alternate with high mountains with a very large and deep perspective, a majestic background that makes you feel like you are sitting on top of the world.

The round design clearly refers to Fort Mamula,

an islet right at the entrance of Boka Bay.

It's a contemporary take on the Austro-Hungarian fortresses that are scattered around the highest peaks that surround the Boka Bay.

The key feature of this design is the exposed pre-engineered steel structure,

linear and modular to minimize construction time and building costs.

Prefabs are mostly constructed inside a controlled factory setting, where it is much easier to build to precise specifications, with the exact materials, keeping waste to a minimum, therefore, your project won't be just more environmentally friendly, it will be also much cheaper.

A highly efficient material utilization where all the building materials are fully recyclable qualifies the building as highly sustainable and eco-friendly.

Prefabricated buildings can be built in much less time than it takes to build in a conventional way, up to 80% faster more or less, due to the fact that prefabs are built on assembly lines in the factory, with few interruptions and then assembled on the construction site minimizing any kind of adverse factors like weather, sudden temporary unavailability of the workforce, etc. This much greater program certainty obviously translates in a series of positive outcomes like controlled and reduced costs and fewer headaches among others.

This construction typology produces much less debris than a traditional building avoiding the treatment and removal of them, the shorter construction time allows lowering substantially the carbon footprint minimizing the transport of the workforce and shipment of building materials.

The foundations are concrete pillars minimizing to such an extent the need for area preparation versus the case of a conventional foundation with concrete slabs, again is achieved a significant save in costs and much faster execution time lowering to a minimum the environmental impact.

Not reducing the surface of the ground area absorbing rainwater keeping a certain height from the ground level protects the structure from the ground moisture, making it more durable and reliable and minimizing maintenance, protects the building from rain flooding, etc.

Palazzo Farnese Roma

La Città Ideale 1470

Palazzo Farnese Roma

The Wall House

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Location Boka Bay

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Mood Board

When I design a house there are always two things in my mind that influence my work, modernist architecture and my allergy to perimetrical blind walls. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson on top of a list of names that would be too long to name them all and endless floor-to-ceiling glazing façades that fade the boundaries between internal and external space. A circular and symmetrical plan with a central corridor with the two rooftop transparent pools which acts as a concrete support backdrop for the prefab modular structure in exposed corten steel, wood, and glass. I love modernist architecture and this is the way it reflects in my work.