MVRDV

Holiday Exclusive Luxury hotel resort  . Galije

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Montenegro is a strongly growing economy touristic. This is largly due to its rough and unspoiled coastline. Some parts of the coastline are already heavily developed but most of the coastline is still untouched.
On a piece of this untouched coastline, barely 2 kilometers from the monumental village fisher peninsula Sveti Stefan, a resort with a hotel is projected. The client was determined to combine exclusivity with a responsible sustainable embedding of the project in its surrounding landscape. they were convinced that the attraction of the Montenegranian landscape could only be maintained by preserving its rough beauty. Exclusivity and building a high quality standard would be the best strategy serving this preservation.

The split / limbo we found ourselves in was to design an iconic exclusive luxury resort in projecting total of 100,000 library program that should be invisible. An exclusive residence under cover.
As a result we designed the whole project as an offset to the terrain and covered it with a blanket of the original landscape. Where a higher density was needed we lift the blanket to create a hill. The iconic hotel is formed by pulling the blanket in front of the cliff to create a even more dramatic overhang. The more flat parts of the landscape hold the villa's organized around their private patios facing the sea.