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SPOL Architects’ First Hotel OSL, a hotel near the newly extended Oslo Airport, has received planning approval after a unanimous vote in the Jessheim City Council. Designed to be a destination in itself, the hotel will be an environmentally friendly oval shape, featuring 300 rooms and a large atrium for sports activities. 

Acting as a “meeting place for globe trotters,” the hotel aims to become a shared space for shared experiences for travelers.

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Located on the site of former farmland between suburban housing and fields, the hotel will create a porous edge between the city of Jessheim and the highway system.

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The soft shape accentuated through a double curvature in the exterior cladding plays up Jessheim’s undulating fields, dark and furrowed like newly ploughed farmland, explained the architect. 

The interior of the building is connected by one large, arced corridor, which curves around a central space covered by a glass roof that will accommodate facilities like a climbing wall.

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A vertical cladding, partly overlapping the windows, accentuates the building, exaggerating curvature and shape. Windows form continuous strips around the building to give wide angled views to the landscape. The dark charcoal wooden exterior, contrasting the haphazard coloring of the surroundings, creates a tension opposed to the warm wood of the interior space. The cladding continues up and above the hotel floors in a curved movement, softening the shape and protecting a rooftop sheltered from dominant wind directions, allowing this exterior space to be used for an outdoor – described the architect in a press release. 

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Construction on the hotel is set to begin within the year.

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• Architects: Mayer & Selders
• Location: Madeira Island, Portugal
• Author: Susanne Selders
• Area: 110.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
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• Coordinator: Dirk Mayer
• Structural Engineering: Luis Canha, lda.
• Constructor: Tomas Canha, lda.

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From the architect. Jardim do Mar is a small farming and fishing village on the foot of  steep, 400 m high cliffs on the Southwest coast of Madeira Island. The project is situated on a Northwest facing slope, with a stunning view along the coast and to the neighboring village.

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The farming landscape in this area and generally on Madeira Island consists of terraces, supported by basalt stone walls made of loose rocks of various, sometimes very impressive sizes. The plot for this project is small and L-shaped and includes 2 terraces with a difference in height of about 3m. The access is difficult, material had to be carried up 50m by hand and no bigger machines could be brought on site.

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For those reasons, maintaining the existing wall and the character of the rural landscape and trying to create as little impact and earth movement as possible was not only a formal choice but also an economic necessity.

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The task was to create two small Studios.The lower apartment consists of an open space with a small kitchen, dining table, sitting area and bed, almost completely open to the view of the bay. The existing basalt stone wall in the back was left natural in the interior of the bathroom, showing some huge rocks and growing moss and succulents.

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The upper apartment has a double ceiling height where a stair leads up to the bed on the mezzanine, from where the opening under the gabled roof gives the most dramatic view of the coast. The stair, a small kitchen, a storage cupboard and a table where blended into one piece of furniture in an effort to make the most use of the limited area on the main floor. 

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A small pool consisting of two circles was integrated in a piece of a lower terrace that was purchased at a later stage; the gardens with organic farming of subtropical fruit, herbs for cooking and vegetables can be used by the guests.

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