Consolacion Hotel

Architects: Camprubi i Santacana / Estela Camprubí Amat & Eugènia Santacana
Location: Monroyo/Mont-roig, Teruel, Spain
Photographs: Jaime Font Furest & Consolacion Hotel

"The hotel designed by the frm of Camprubí i Santacana Arquitectes is an innovative project comprising a central house containing the services and communal areas, plus ten rooms built independently. The hotel, which has borrowed the name of the hermitage, is notable for..." To keep reading and see more photos, click here.

"...its close links with the natural world. For a start, the rooms are not classical hotel bedrooms but individual cubes clad with wood, set 100 m from the hotel’s central nucleus on a hillside reached via a natural garden of rosemary and thyme. They are called kubes: 36 sq. m of simple, almost minimalist architecture. Black slate foor, a bathtub dug out of the selfsame foor, a bathroom with a separate shower, a suspended chimney, an armchair and a reading lamp.

Each cube has a large west-facing window and terrace, framing a view exclusively confned to rolling hills shrouded in pine trees, with not a single building in sight. Total privacy."










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