Architects:Davide Macullo Architects

Area:18361m²

Year:2020

Photographs:Alex Teuscher,Fabrice Fouillet,Roberto Pellegrini

Manufacturers:2F Leuchten,Alutech Metallbau,Aqwa Sanitär,Baumgartner,Brunner Innenausbau,Emmenbrücke,HGC,Holzbau Bucher,Poliform,Stans,Vogel Design

Landscape Architect:Fahrni Architekten

Construction Contractor:Anliker AG

Interior Contractor:Poliform Contract

Structural Engineer:Basler & Hofmann AG

Principal:Davide Macullo

Project Architect:Aileen Forbes-Munnelly, Aileen Forbes-Munnelly

Design Team:Michele Alberio, Andrea Carlotta Conti, Andrea Caminada, Federica Buffetti, Samantha Capoferri, Lorenza Tallarini.

Client:Dogus Group

Client Representative:Drees & Sommer GmbH

Timber Construction Consultants:Lauber Ingenieure

Sanitary Engineer:JOP Gebäudetechnik

Fire Protection Consultant:Simon Rubin,Lauber Ingenieure

Timber Construction:Kost Holzbau

Lighting Consultant:Mettler + Partner

Sauna & Steambath Planner:Wellness Partner

Sleeping Suites:Sonami

Sanitary Engineer:JOP Gebäudetechnik

Fire Protection Consultant:Simon Rubin, Lauber Ingenieure

Timber Construction:Kost Holzbau

Lighting Consultant:Mettler + Partner

Sauna And Steambath Planner:Wellness Partner

City:Weggis

Country:Switzerland

Text description provided by the architects. The true beauty of a built place is proportional to the positive influence it has on people. When we wonder why we feel so good in a place, so ‘at home’, it is because its dimensions, proportions and tensions have been designed for us.

Chenot Palace Weggis, located in one of the most beautiful and historic places in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Lucerne, framed by the Alps, is designed for human well-being. What the hotel offers is continuous sense of feeling good, being at ease. It is this sense we give to our architecture by understanding it as a link between the DNA of a place and its future.

Constructed between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2020, this flagship project extends over 20’000 sqm and includes the addition of a new timber guest room block, a state-of-the-art medical spa and wellness area and the renovation of existing hotel buildings.

The view of the charming turn-of-the-century hotel from the lake remains unchanged from before the new development; the new guest room building has been set back above the entrance and its volumes staggered in such a way that it is not ever fully visible.

The spa volume is covered with gardens and on arrival there only hint of spaces that might lie inside is across a series of bonsai courtyards. The timber cladding of the new guest rooms, spa and pool area plays a game of shadows and creates a material landscape embedded in the green gardens while the uniting of the old hotel buildings with the new elements is a synthesis of architectural language with simplicity in materials to ensure that the senses are not overwhelmed.

The language of the new adopts the symbolic traits of the historical buildings, recalling the proportions and character of the vernacular, expressed in a contemporary way, combining the organic with the geometric, all in chromatic harmony. The complex comprises 97 hotel rooms, of which 52 are in pre-existing buildings and 45 in the new timber construction.

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Address:Weggis, Switzerland