White Wolf Hotel is a series of buildings intimately related with the rich surrounding natural environment. The built architecture is a realization of the holistic aspirations of the client. The built architecture objects, profoundly integrated in the natural context, provide holistic and spiritual experiences of calm, intimacy, meditation, and retreat. The objective was, from the starting point, holistic. The challenge was to create a place that praises nature, a special place dedicated to the body and spirit, accordingly to the clients’ alternative ways of living, and even the perception of life itself. It is a place where the visitor is involved in positive thinking and embraces related humanistic values, far away from the stress paradigms of contemporary life. Instead of a single construction condensing the entire program, the adopted strategy aimed to spread the facilities through separated buildings along the site, adapting itself to the existing natural conditions, respecting and enhancing its values. The shape of the architecture, achieved by basic, clear, and direct geometric forms, aimed to provide a natural, non-aggressive sensation and a natural visual relation between the user and the buildings. The buildings are meant to be neutral in the landscape, in a gesture that avoids an …
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