Designed by Masquespacio, The Dutch hotel group The Student Hotel, which provides a unique co-living and co-working hybrid, has just opened its first two student-only Campus properties in the Marina and Poble Sec districts of Barcelona, Spain. The Student Hotel has collaborated with Masquespacio, the Valencia-based creative consultancy, for the refurbishment and design of both properties.
Photography: Luis Beltran
The Marina Campus is housed in a four-towered 21,000 m2 building that includes 500 rooms. The property features communal spaces, such as swimming pools, gaming zones, open and closed seating areas, as well as quiet study rooms to encourage connectivity and exchange while providing enough space for learning and development.
Considering both the international clientele and the strong identity of The Student Hotel, Masquespacio has developed its design by creating a mix that remains in keeping with the brand’s image while adding a touch of Mediterranean identity through the use of local materials and a bold color palette.
Photography: Luis Beltran
The property was designed in an eclectic style that fuses materials, colors, and textures. You’ll recognize some Memphis style with a little bit of Seventies vintage and an industrial aesthetic, among others. Each corner, decorative detail, and visual element aspires to blend perfectly with a student lifestyle by being part of their daily activities and aiming to be a source of inspiration for them.
Ana Hernández, creative director from Masquespacio points out: “It should be noted how the use of color not only influences one’s mood, it can also be used to create a bold design statement in the environment”.
Photography: Luis Beltran
Project Info: Interiors Designers:Masquespacio Location: Carrer de Sancho de Ávila, 22, 08018 Barcelona, Spain Area: 21940.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs:Luis Beltran Manufacturers: Sancal, Onok Lighting Project Name: The Student Hotel Campus Marina Barcelona
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GOODSTEN isn´t just a creamery. It is born from an experience of oneiric landscapes, as if it where form another world, with a completely different logic. Unknown and fantastic lands made us think of precious stones. Their faceted surfaces inspired us to create a construction system. Those rocks, which blind us with their glow and crystal-like textures, are diamonds from another world.
Photography: Federico Kulekdjian
The allegory of the precious stone had an impact on creative decisions, both in design and construction aspects, branding decisions and even on the making of the desserts, which are prepared on granite slabs with temperatures below zero. Hitzig Militello Arquitectos transformed this idea into a construction system, through a material which allowed us to mold these faceted figures, without falling into the literalness of stony materials. We wanted to express a homogeneity through one continuous surface of elements which set up a diamond-like shell, made possible by means of the repetition of treated metallic tiles.
Photography: Federico Kulekdjian
The proposal is expressive and synthetic, in a way that it suggests an intriguing formalism from its silent and mono material condition. The construction of a double height annex, which grants the true spatiality to the creamery, is attached to the original house so that both coexist in a respectful and harmonic way. The new diamond-like structure dialogues morphologically with the pitched roofs of a 20th-century chalet.
Photography: Federico Kulekdjian
The site of the annex incorporates two mansards in the inside and a third one on the outside, which respond to the requirements of the ventilating and lighting municipal codes. Because of this, the roof considerably modifies its shape allowing the needed lighting and fresh air to enter. As a result, we found ourselves with a very plastic roof, geometrically speaking. At ground level we built a concrete piece, which works as a basement over which the roof rests, becoming one similar morphological configuration.
Ground floor plan
We created a compositional system of triangles and faceted surfaces which can be seen in various elements particularly designed. From the openings in the building in the production zone to the annex roof allowing the light to be sifted. The same geometry also makes up the metallic structure of the general lighting system, as well as the design of the exterior floorings, made from precast concrete. It all comes together to the same compositional criteria.
Front view
The general interior idea is determined by essentials from the aesthetic Nordic imaginary, as are the skin and leather tapestry, walls coated in natural wood and light-colored granites. All of these noble materials are used in a monochromatic way so that a perfect integration of the oneiric and fantastic world and the compositional system created is generated with no greater difficulty.
The client´s requirements have been very rigorous. The surface destined to the production area covers almost 50% of the buildings total surface, divided into two levels and with two double circulations as to ensure the clearly differentiated public and private areas.
Photography: Federico Kulekdjian
Project Info: Architects:Hitzig Militello Arquitectos Location: Av. del Libertador, Martínez, Buenos Aires, Argentina Architects in Charge: Fernando Hitzig, Leonardo G. Militello Area: 118.0 m2 Project Year: 2017 Photographs:Federico Kulekdjian Manufacturers: EDFAN
Project Name: Goodsten
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