Hotel Puerta America and Park

BBUK Studio Limited

For the terraces and a neighbouring public park of a 5-star hotel in Madrid, BBUK collaborated with seventeen architects and designers from around the world.In the park change and flux was explored; a pine forest surround the hotel building clad by Jean Nouvel, cloaking it from the city. Concentric rings of trees radiate away from the hotel across the park, like an orchard, each ring flowering pink consecutively. From the surrounding apartments the trees read as a floral calendar from January through to December. Breaks in the tree grid provide space for play equipment, sculpture and a kickabout area.A generous, stone clad staircase runs between the hotel terrace and park. This terrace is paved in travertine, each slab individually cut to follow the curved geometry of the building; a bronze pergola runs through the terrace supporting flowers throughout the summer.

Overview

Location

Location 

Madrid

Category

Parks and gardens

Landscape Architect

BBUK Studio Limited

Client

Silken Group

Brief

BBUK designed the hotel’s terraces and entrance spaces as well as the neighbouring park which was adopted by Madrid municipality.

Awards

Madrid

Details

Project Team

Landscape Architects : BBUK Studio | Architects : Arata Isozaki, David Chipperfield, Isometrix, Jason Brugges, Javier Mariscal, Jean Nouvel, John Pawson, Kathryn Findlay, Marc Newson, Norman Foster, Plasma Studio, Richard Gluckman, Ron Arad, Teresa Sapey, Victorio & Lucchino, Zaha Hadid

Local planning authority or government body

Year Completed

2005

Project Size

1 ha

Technical's

Planting

Mature Pinus pinea trees; Pink flowering trees consecutively throughout the year: Prunus, Cercis, Albizia, Lagerstoemia and Koelreuteria species. Trachelospermum jasminoides and Wisteria floribunda ‘macrobotrys’ climbers on pergola.

Materials

Dry stone wallsCor-ten fencing and cladding Paving Terrace & planters – Travertine stone Pergola – bronze Lighting –Iguzzini

Contractors 

Grupo Urvasco

BBUK Studio Limited

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Madrid

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