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Hotel Pino Nature, Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina Architecture Project on Trebevi? mountain – design by Studio ZEC Arhitekti
6 Sep 2017
Pino Nature Hotel, Trebevi? – Sarajevo Mountains
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Design: Studio ZEC, Architects
Hotel Pino Nature, Sarajevo
Main ingredients as inspiration for this project were the vernacular architecture (common sense of building on a non-forgiving mountain: steep roofs, materiality and experience of vernacular architects), natural geometry of the mountain ambience (steep slopes, cone shape of pine trees), tactility and warmth of a mountain hut. These inspirations were then filtered and adapted to contemporary standards of architectural design.
Our projects objective was to create recreational, hospitality and restaurant/bar contents in a non-urban, mountain ambience. The hotel is situated between the capital city of B&H and mountain Trebevi?, famous for being one of the location of the Winter Olympics held in 1984. The restaurant/bar area was to be designed for both big events and every day small scale use, respecting a tight construction schedule and a reasonable budget.

Compositionally speaking, Hotel Pino consists of two bodies: a primary horizontal cube in which public facilities are housed and vertical volume ? the tower, which contains exclusively guestrooms. Circulation of guests dominates in t...