Sensory Architecture recognizes that people experience and react to an environment in many ways, subtle or obvious, consciously or unconsciously, and this project is based on sensory hospitality that is capable of stimulating the senses in the direction of promoting an inner transformation towards construction of a new relationship with the environment, with the planet and with ourselves.
Studio Name: Atelier O’Reilly
Author: Patrícia O’Reilly
Design Team: Patrícia O’Reilly, Isabel Saad, Isabel Rocha, Jefferson, Tatiana Vella, Clara O’Reilly
Area: 600m² covered area (the suites and social rooms) – 1.200m² implantation (counting the tunnel, machine and technical rooms)
Year: 2022
Location: Mairiporã – SP
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Photography Credits: André Klotz
Other Credits: Construction manager Alexandre Mavignier
The design and work of Chalet Cristal, for an important hotel group in Brazil, is a big step towards the art of hospitality, transforming itself into a multiplier agent of new habits and perceptions, thus expanding awareness of our actions related to the environment.
“Through physical experience, human beings are able to reach the real dimension of their impact on the world, seeking to consolidate loving attitudes focused on living better and providing the other with greater quality in relationships with the inhabited environment and with other living beings.”
Establishing an architectural concept that contains the holistic scope of health and sustainability, goes beyond the universe of project design and reaches the State of the Art of designing for people, by people. A kind of “discovery” of a new way to reach a whole and integral planet.
There are many points in common between crystals, stones, portals and tunnels, water, regenerating sleep, art, health and sustainability. Points that apply and connect a structure of the fundamental concept of this project and work.
Stones and crystals work as energy amplifiers: their strength consists in their ability to amplify and direct our own powers.
Crystal therapy is a type of therapy where these objects are used as the main element to heal emotional and physical pain. They act in a harmonic way, balancing our energy field due to their chemical and physical properties, through their electromagnetic field with high vibratory power.
The geometric patterns of crystals were first observed by Nicolaus Steno in 1660. He conducted precise measurements of internal structures and found that the angles between faces are constant, which became known as Steno’s Law.
The use of crystals in this architecture combines the abstract with the solid element, where the reflected color assumes a prominent role in the reading of the space, in addition to becoming somewhat ephemeral and at the mercy of external elements, such as the incidence of sunlight at different times of the day, making the same environment have different colors at every moment, an allusion to the refraction of the Crystal.
We brought crystal sculptures to transform environments from the refraction of lights inside, provoking new sensations and experiences.
The project establishes a fine connection between the building, temporalities, its interiors, the environment and the resumption of consciousness through form and materialities.
The architecture of spaces is born from a need for use, therefore, it was exclusively designed to meet these needs by welcoming, protecting and promoting an archetypal experience in the use of this new place.
In order for the strategies to reach the highest level of healthiness in the building and mitigate the negative environmental impacts, we established guidelines that will achieve the objective of this design based on a global study that allowed the detection of certain synergies that will promote the health of the building and the people who will be there. inhabit it, optimize resources and minimize the environmental impact of the complex, promoting a better quality of life for its users, consolidating a product that is structured in a language that considers the new path for the planet.
The applied healthy and sustainable paradigm is based on the use of the local climate for thermal and acoustic comfort, application of non-toxic materials to maintain indoor air quality, energy efficiency, biophilia, reduction of water consumption, reuse of rainwater, creation from multifunctional spaces to integration with the surroundings and the generation of SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
The work management program was drawn up based on industrial premises. The entire Chalet was assembled in a controlled environment, a shed structured especially for this indoor assembly with training of the complementary engineering project teams and training of labor for the wood frame and steel constructive systems, expanding knowledge and forming specialists for a new conscious sustainable builders market.
Established an efficient construction site with non-pollution strategies, training, collections and intelligent operational flows. The leftover steel and wood will be reused in the hotel’s own sequel works. During the construction process, waste was sorted and collected by local recycling from the hotel’s own operation, which maintained selective collection for its reuse.
SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY AND SENSORY Architecture establishes a new paradigm for the occupation of built space, so that people are encouraged to experience and react to an environment in many ways, subtle or obvious, consciously or unconsciously.
This project is based on spatial sensorial hospitality, capable of stimulating the senses in the direction of promoting an inner transformation towards the construction of a new relationship with the surroundings, with the planet and with ourselves.
Its construction is a big step towards the transformation of Hospitality as a multiplier agent of new habits and perceptions, in order to expand awareness of our actions related to the environment.
“Through physical experience, human beings are able to reach the real dimension of their impact on the world, seeking to consolidate loving attitudes focused on living better and providing others with greater quality in relationships with the inhabited environment and with other living beings. In this way, we all build a better world.”
