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Kaleydoscope Hotel is a proposal we made in collaboration with the architect Silvia Spagnoletta. It aims to become an emblematic hotel in Berlin, located between Alexanderplatz and Berlin Hackescher markt.
The project, conceived as overlapping volumes, provides a convinced geometry that politely connects with its surroundings. The metal-patterned façades allow the building’s skin to breathe, to serve as a filter for incoming and outgoing light, and to show its volumetric shape at the same time.
We started this project remembering the city’s history because it has a very important role in the city’s current architecture.
Nowadays Berlin continues to reinvent itself. It is a city where people can fell freedom and creativity and this has been possible thanks to the series of transformations that the city has gone through. The city’s history and fractures gave us the main key for the project: We defragmented the initial volume and started with the idea of creating overlapping volumes, covering much of its skin with a material that refers to its industrial past: metal.
Berlin’s iconic skyline is a combination of historical and modern buildings that is constantly growing in height, that is the reason why we focused on vertical growth.
Another reason to rely on overlapping volumes was scale. We played with smaller volumes to create a friendly face and then overlapped them.
