Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel

Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos (1)
Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos
José Ribas Folguera

In Hospitalet, South door of Barcelona, a double white and black 110 meters high tower emerges from a garden of palm trees. Privileged space of the new Square of Europe, it is a garden of shadows, lights and freshness. Hotel Catalonia is an invitation to luxury, emphasized by a generous vegetable canopy.

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Roland Halbe
Roland Halbe

On all the height, two outside loggias unite both buildings. They welcome a luxuriant vertical landscape, lined with the passageways of bedrooms and crossed by a "piranesian" game constituted by the terraces and the staircases. Halfway up, a garden surrounds the building like a cold greenhouse and filters the sun. Behind the plants, we guess at the restaurant of the hotel. In the summit, a crown of palm trees emerges from the terraces of the suites, the fitness and the swimming pool. In the East, in the South and in the West, facades are bright, white, almost blinding. In the North, the facade is black, matt. No window but openings which take shape and merge in plant printed patterns on glass and "esgrafiados" in concrete.

Roland Halbe

The matter is mutant. In the daytime and at night, the palm leaves print their shadows on grounds, façades and passageways. The lights are direct, filtered or backed. The shadows are projected or "ombres chinoises". The lighting effects are unstable. They slip into the bedrooms. On walls, ceilings, curtains, sheets

Roland Halbe
Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos

Every customer finds a space adapted to his pleasures and his needs among 358 bedrooms. Business rooms, perfectly sized, hyper connected, for one night congress participants; alcoves for shared pleasures; junior suites and suites in which bedroom, bathroom and living room work in synergy and match in accordance with the desires of the customer. Another way to live a stay in Barcelona.

Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos
Roland Halbe

Site area: 4000 m²

Net floor area: 22 000 m²

Gross floor area: 26 000 m²

General information

Renaissance Barcelona Fira Hotel

YEAR

2013

Status

Built

Option to visit

Visit by appointment

Address

Sq. d'Europa, 50-52

08902 LHospitalet de Llobregat - Barcelona

Latitude: 41.356368499

Longitude: 2.1231262999

Classification

Building materials

Concrete

Metal

Built area

5001 - 20000 m²

Awards

FAD 2013

ACUE 2015

Involved architects

José Ribas Folguera

Collaborators

Adriana Ribas (Architect)

Involved architectural firms

Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos

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EUMies Award

Website links

Ateliers Jean Nouvel

EUMies Award

Ribas & Ribas Arquitectos

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