Hotel Aquapura Prague

General Info

Area: 8.987m2
Client: Aquapura Hotels Resorts & SPA
Architecture: Aires Mateus & Associados, Lda

Details

The full accomplishment of the intended goals was technically complex due to a set of particular characteristics: the need to rehabilitate and restore the existing buildings, the small and confined implementation area, the restrictions imposed by the National Monuments Institute and also the need to find solutions that meet the architects' proposals.

The intention was to transform two existing buildings with basement and 4 to 5 floors above ground and a third building constructed in the 15th century with ground floor and one elevated floor. The buildings, situated in the protected area of the Prague urban network, classified by UNESCO, required the rehabilitation of wooden floors and roofs in the case of the more recent buildings and the complete rehabilitation and restoration of the 15th century building.

The hotel programme foresaw the construction of a luxury hotel complex consisting of 45 rooms and 18 flats. The flats, although intended for commercial use, would make use of all the services provided by the Hotel.

The common areas would be distributed by the existing buildings and also by a new building to be built, with 5 floors above ground and with two basement levels where the underground car park and most of the technical and service areas of the Hotel would be installed.

In order to satisfy a strong premise of the client and also the design team's own concerns regarding sustainability, studies will be carried out with the objective of presenting and justifying the technical options that translate, on the one hand, into an efficient and rational use of energy and, on the other hand, guarantee a sustainable global solution.