Australian studio INDEX Architecture has completed a proposal for a new hotel on the beach side of a resort in Jurmala, Latvia. The design is located a short walk from the beachfront and includes 130 rooms, a restaurant, conference and health club facilities. The brief called for a design based around the theme of music that reused an existing tower on the site. The ground floor is to be constructed from a curved timber LVL framed roof structure, which was drawn from the waveforms of Handel’s ‘Water Music.’ The tower reuses the existing concrete structure with a new curtain wall featuring a white ceramic interlayer pattern. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The human experience of nature’s rhythms; the ocean, the wind, is intrinsically tied to music, with these natural frequencies, resonating at some level within us. The coastline and surrounds of the hotel site is in many ways a musical landscape, both in terms of its aural qualities (the sounds of wind and waves) but also in its natural forms – the shapes of waves and sand dunes physically capturing their frequency; their natural music.
