{"id":45449,"date":"2014-07-01T17:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T15:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/juvet-landscape-hotel\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T18:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:54:41","slug":"juvet-landscape-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/juvet-landscape-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"juvet landscape hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of \u00c5ndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the road, \u201dGudbrandsjuvet\u201d. The client, Knut Slinning, is a local resident. The idea emerged as an opportunity to exploit breathtaking scenery with minimal intervention, allowing locations which would otherwise be prohibited for reasons of conservation. Instead of the conventional hotel, with guest rooms stacked together in one large building, the Landscape Hotel distributes the rooms throughout the terrain as small individual houses. Through careful orientation every room gets its own view of a piece of the landscape, always changing with the season, the weather, and the time of day. No room looks out at another. The rooms are built in a massive wood construction with only 50mm exterior insulation, and are intended for summer use only. Each building rests on a set of 40 mm massive steel rods drilled into the rock, existing topography and vegetation left almost untouched. The glass is set against slim frames of standard steel profiles, using stepped edges to extend the exterior layer of the main glass surfaces all the way to the corners. Today\u2019s concern for sustainability in architecture focuses almost exclusively on reduced energy consumption in production and operation. We think that conservation of topography is another aspect of sustainability which deserves attention. Standard building procedure requires the general destruction of the site to accommodate foundations and infrastructure before building can commence. Conserving the site is a way to respect the fact that nature precedes and succeeds man. Also, dutiful observation of existing topography produces a reading where the geometry of the intervention highlights the irregularities of the natural site, thus explaing both itself and its context with more power. A sustainable connection is established between structure and site.<\/p>\n