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Eden Hotel in Cornwall
Cornish Accommodation Development in southwest England, UK – by Tate Harmer, Architects
12 Apr 2017
Eden Hotel in Cornwall
Architects: Tate Harmer
Location: Cornwall, England
Eden Hotel

Tate Harmer?s design for a new £8.5million hotel at The Eden Project, in Cornwall, has received planning permission. The scheme, set to complete in 2018, will comprise 109-bedrooms, a restaurant and education rooms.

Using locally sourced materials, the hotel will sit sensitively within the Cornish countryside and offer high standards of accessibility, energy-efficiency and sustainability.

Massing has been carefully considered to minimise visual impact but optimise space for visitors. The Eden hotel will be split across three and four-storey blocks, connected by a central axis that will feature existing sycamore and oak trees and Cornish hedgerows, and create a new public area and event space. Circulation is arranged to maximise views and create a feeling of connectivity to nature for visitors and users.
Local stone cladding will be used at the lower level of the buildings, and locally-sourced timber poles are designed to set the main accommodation blocks into the surrounding landscape. ?

The hotel will provide on-site accommodation for some of the Eden Project?s more than 1m annual visitors, and enhance the facilities it can offer as a venue for events, summer co...