Những bể bơi khách sạn ấn tượng nhất

Du khách sẽ có trải nghiệm tuyệt vời khi được tắm mình trong làn nước trong vắt của các bể bơi được thiết kế đặc biệt, tại những khu nghỉ mát nổi tiếng thế giới.

Bể bơi xanh ngắt có mái che một nửa là điểm nhấn không thể thiếu tại khu nghỉ dưỡng Rosewood ở Jumby Bay, Antigua. Ảnh: Jumby Bay, A Rosewood Resort.

Với tầm nhìn rộng mở cùng nhiệt độ đối lập nhau, bể bơi kép tại khách sạn Habita Monterrey, Mexico, đáp ứng mọi sở thích của du khách. Nằm ở hai bên của tầng trên cùng khách sạn 8 tầng, mang tới tầm nhìn 360 độ về khu đô thị sầm uất ở bên dưới, hai bể bơi được ngăn cách bởi một quầy bar được thiết kế sang trọng, tinh tế. Ảnh: Designhotels.com.

Bể bơi tại khách sạn Alila Ubud ở Bali, Indonesia, nằm trên đỉnh của một ngọn núi nhìn xuống thung lũng Ayung River. Làn nước trong vắt tràn ra khắp thành bể khiến du khách tưởng tượng như đang bơi thẳng xuống sườn núi rậm rạp phía dưới. Ảnh: designhotels.com.

Bể bơi nằm trên nóc khách sạn The Standard là một phần không thể thiếu trong các hoạt động đêm ở Los Angeles, Mỹ. Nằm trên cùng của khách sạn 12 tầng, bể bơi mang tới cái nhìn toàn cảnh về thành phố. Bể có nước nóng quanh năm nằm nổi bật giữa hàng ghế đỏ vây xung quanh. Ảnh: Designhotels.com.

Chỉ cách bãi biển vài bước chân, bể bơi tại khách sạn The Library ở Koh Samui, Thái Lan, có sắc màu đỏ rực. Được lát bằng đá cẩm thạch Italy mang màu sắc đỏ, vàng, cam, bể bơi nhìn thẳng ra bãi biển và được vây quanh bởi hàng ghế gỗ và thảm đỏ. Ảnh: Designhotels.com.

Tại khu nghỉ dưỡng Boca Raton rộng 1,4 km 2 ở Florida, Mỹ, điều khiến các du khách bối rối chính là bơi ở đâu trong số vài bể bơi rộng lớn ở đây. Ảnh: Boca Raton Resort and Club.

Nằm trên diện tích 162.000 m2 hướng ra biển ở Maui, Hawaii, khu nghỉ dưỡng Grand Wailea cũng bao gồm 9 bể bơi (trong đó có bể chỉ dành cho người lớn), 7 máng trượt nước, một bãi biển dành cho trẻ em và quán bar nằm trong hang động. Thậm chí còn một bể bơi chuyên dành cho những người mê lặn. Ảnh: Hibiscus Pool.

Bể bơi trong khách sạn Fontainebleau nổi tiếng ở Miami, Mỹ, là một điểm hút khách quan trọng trong hơn 50 năm. Nơi đây từng đón tiếp rất nhiều các ngôi sao thế giới và xuất hiện trong các bộ phim nổi tiếng như Goldfinger, Midnight Cowboy và Scarface. Ảnh: Seth Browarnik.

Khách sạn Fullerton nổi tiếng là một biểu tượng kiến trúc ở Singapore. Bể bơi ngoài trời dài miên man mang tới khung cảnh ngoạn mục về sông Singapore và các tòa nhà chọc trời. Ảnh: Fullerton Hotel.

Khách nghỉ tại khách sạn Marina Bay Sands ở Singapore đều bị ấn tượng bởi bể bơi dài 150 m nằm trên nóc tòa nhà mang tới cái nhìn toàn cảnh về thành phố Singapore và vịnh Marina. Ảnh: placesandfoods.

Khách sạn Banyan Tree Seychelles gây ấn tượng bởi bể bơi nằm trên vách núi và làn nước chảy tràn ra mặt bể, tạo cảm giác như bể bơi không có giới hạn. Đi cùng với nó là quán bar phục vụ rất nhiều loại đồ uống làm từ trái cây tươi. Ảnh: Banyan Tree Hotels.

Bể bơi khách sạn Fasano tại Rio de Janiero, Brazil là nơi dành cho những con người xinh đẹp đến thể hiện mình vào ban đêm, khi mọi ánh đèn được thắp sáng làm bể bơi nổi bật giữa thành phố lấp loáng. Ảnh: Fasano Hotels.

9Hotel

9Hotel combines a traditional facade and historic surroundings with a totally updated and modern interior, designed by Castel Veciana.
The simplicity of its design and colors; whites, blacks and wood, create elegant spaces that offer the guest a contemporary ambience without renouncing comfort. All these things will make the visitor feel as if they are really in a very special place… a secret corner in the center of Paris.

X2 Resort Kui Buri

Located on eight acres of virgin beach coast on the Gulf of Thailand, the X2 Resort Kui Buri is meant to harmonize with its surroundings of undisturbed greenery and calm fishing villages.
There are twenty-three villas with private terrace, garden and pool. Villa walls are made of locally-quarried rock and stone, and are prolonged to appear, from the neighbor’s point of view, as a fence.
Within the villas, beds are positioned towards floor-to-ceiling glass doors that open onto the beach, and clean, understated furniture adds to the resort’s overall atmosphere of unpretentious sophistication.

Tehran Business Hotel

 

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Iran-based Bonsar Architecture Studio shared with us their proposal for the Tehran Business Hotel Competition, for which they received first prize. See more images and architect’s description after the break.

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Tehran Business Hotel was a private competition held in the spring of 2010. Despite the routine of competitions, the process for getting the building permit was done before it’s initiation. Since the owners weren’t satisfied with the design, they decided to start a competition in order to achieve a better one. As a result, the competition was to improve the previous design to get the building permit from the municipality rather than designing from the beginning.
Regarding the history of the project, we should find the weaknesses and constrains of the primary design based on the competition brief and try to take them as the starting point of the design process.

Courtesy of Bonsar Architecture Studio

Looking into the competition brief our team faced with three main challenges. The way we analyzed the challenges and later on the tools we used to solve them were the main approaches defining the design process.
The first challenge that came along at the very first glance over the program brief was that the building seemed to be two buildings in one. The first one was the hotel and its attachments and the second one was consisting of more public programs like conference center and commercials. As soon as the idea of duality in the building came up, the way we were going to bind the two buildings into one became an important issue to be considered.

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The commercial was one of the important parts of the project in client’s point of view, but its location, that was semi buried under the ground regarding the slop of the site, made it less important at the first sight. So considering the vitalization of the commercial was the other challenge that the design group was facing with.
The last challenge emerged from the program itself. As the ordinary program brief for hotels wasn’t suitable for the client expectations of Tehran Business Hotel, we revised the program and added new programs, specialized for the project, like working stations, private meeting rooms and traditional restaurant. These new programs have been defined based on the analysis we have done on the user types and their activities and needs during their stay.

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Besides the last three challenges, through considering the physical emergence of the project, we found out another important issue that should have been measured in the design process. The project is blocked just in the west side while it’s free in the other sides. As a result the west view would be ignored unintentionally. Regarding the difference in height that the project has with its periphery, which is emphasized as a result of being located on a hill, it would be visible from several parts of the city. Moreover, the client has mentioned that they wanted the building to be a land mark, which wouldn’t be possible without paying special attention to the huge wall on the west in the primary design. As a result the west elevation became an important issue to be considered in the design process.

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Architects: Bonsar Architecture Studio
Location: Gandhi St., Tehran, Iran
Client: Moshar, Biria and Partners
Project architect: Mohammad Majidi
Design Collaborators: Azar Farshidi, Mehran Haghbin, Hoda Sharifian, Hossein Salavaty Khoshghalb, Anahita Tabrizi, Nima Dehghani, Mehdi Kamboozia, Zahra Khaniki, Bahar Ehsan, Shahram Khosravi
Structural Engineering: Farid Farzadnia
Mechanical consultant: Ahmadreza Ghavami
Project Area: 12687 m²
Plot Area: 1000 m²
Project Year: June 2010

Ecological Resort in Dominica

 

This is a sustainable design for a future development that possibly will be built. BURO II already built a project of this amplitude in Guangzhou (China) and won with this ‘Baiyun International Convention Centre’ an international prize at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in 2008.
The design of this hotel beach resort is a concept whereby a sustainable relationship with the local economy, culture and natural heritage is central. The hotel assimilates with the natural habitat of the island. The development of this exclusive residential resort of 22.000m² is situated along Mero Beach on the west coast of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
More images and architect’s description after the break.
Mero Beach is one of the most important beaches on the island and has specific and relevant social and ecological values. Both those social and ecological characteristics are related to the fragile cultural, economical and natural balance whose protection is paramount.The design of this resort intends to protect that balance and promote a sustainable development approach. The design reflects a concept whereby a sustainable relationship with the local economy, culture and natural heritage is central. The hotel assimilates with the natural habitat of the island. This means that:
• Privacy and security could be combined with the possibility for authentic local experiences;
• Natural bio-diversity could be enriched rather than destroyed by human activities;
• Tourism could be a lever of a sustainable cultural, social and economical development;
• Resilience and flexibility in design and construction processes could assure economical, social and financial sustainability with a temporal horizon of more than 100 years;
• The impact of the new buildings and activities regarding energy use, water management, waste production and climate could be strongly limited.
Mero Village and the Resort will together form a hub of social and economic activity, drawing in visitors who wish to experience Dominica’s unique natural and cultural heritage, local food production, crafts and skills. The Resort will benefit from, protect and enhance the nation’s world renowned rainforest, coastal and wetland habitats and indigenous species. As far as practicable, food, goods and services will be sourced locally. As a new cultural and business model for hospitality and regeneration, Mero Beach Resort will inspire and inform future developments towards sustainability.
Clients, operators, designers and contractors are engaged during the design, construction and management processes in the conception and enforcement of an appraisal framework which will aim towards a LEED certification.
Architecture and nature
The goal of the project is to create a dialogue with the existing context: the nature and the village. The main characteristics of the site are: the presence of the beach, the thick foliage all along the long and thin beachfront plot, the topography from flat to steep, the river and ravine and the proximity of Mero village.
The concept is to create a linear path as the central spine of the project. This promenade will connect several functions creating a smooth transition from public to private. The beach will become in this manner ‘equipped’, featuring different grades of openness for guests and visitors. The local public road integrated in the project and transformed into a village “boulevard”, marina, shops, ecopark, reception, congress hall, parking, fitness, spa, restaurant and beach club among others.
A Priori, the high density of the program has to be distributed in a way that minimizes the impact of the development within this sensitive location. The program has been divided into several integrated volumes creating an equated rhythm of sound (building) and silence (mountain). The developmental strategy is governed by a system that mediates volumetric form with local topography.
The project contains a mixture of uses including: villas, bungalows and apartments, retail, entertainment, hotel, conference facilities and parking.
The use of sustainable materials and techniques and the predominance of natural vegetation strengthen the concept of architectural integration within a natural environment. Always framed by the local vegetation and sea views, the new development will become a new landmark for the coastline of Dominica without overshadowing its existential essence: the Nature.