[ Divercity Architects ] Kefalonia Hotel

Designer: Divercity Architects (London; Athens)
Building type: Hotel
Location: Kefalonia, Greece
website: www.divercityarchitects.com
Status: Under construction; estimated completion, 2012

For their latest hotel design in Kefalonia, Greece, Divercity Architects intended to blend this contemporary hotel with the vernacular architecture of the surroundings.  Due to the site conditions, the hotel conforms to the sloping topology of the steep hill it rests on and then breaks into four distinct strands that divide the site into north and south plots.   While fifteen luxury villas occupy the northern plot,  the southern portion contains gardens and areas for relaxation.  The facade is clad in operable perforated wooden panels that both serve to separate and extend the private living space into the outdoors.


from  archdaily