Patina Maldives Hotel by Studio MK27 is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño Inmobiliario Competition Category.

PlataInmobiliario· 2023

Patina Maldives Hotel

by Studio MK27

Client: Studio mk27

A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Inmobiliario Category

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The Design

About Patina Maldives Hotel

Patina Maldives es un hotel resort ubicado en una isla de las Maldivas. El diseño abarca una superficie construida de 34.500 metros cuadrados e incluye todos los elementos, desde el plan maestro hasta las lámparas colgantes. Las estructuras de madera permiten una construcción más limpia y rápida. Se emplean materiales naturales como piedra, varas y fibras en todo el conjunto. Los edificios son bajos y visualmente permeables, de modo que las líneas arquitectónicas no rompen el horizonte. Los espacios se organizan de lo privado a lo público, y las áreas al aire libre conectan el interior con el exterior. La arquitectura permanece discreta para que la naturaleza siga siendo la protagonista.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Plata

Patina Maldives Hotel ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Patina Maldives Hotel sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Patina Maldives Hotel es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The hotel in the Maldives provides a welcoming space for people to live light and amplify natural feelings in a dreamy state. The volumetric answers are extremely delicate, respectful to its surroundings, trying to provide shadows and coziness, to capture and amplify the landscape strength. The architectural lines never break the horizon, they speak low and elegantly. All buildings are visually permeable, dematerialized, putting life and men in the center of the experience.
Dimensions & Packaging: built area: 34.500 m²
Tags: Hotel, Maldives, Resort, Wood, Tropical Design
Production Technology: From the thoughtful use of wooden structures, that enabled a cleaner and faster construction, to the choice of natural materials such as stones, sticks and fibers – Patina Maldives buildings enhances our connection with nature, place and culture.
Everything on the island – from the masterplan to the light pendants – was designed by studio mk27 with various collaborators worldwide. Through a healthy collaborative process, the team managed to create an unique living experience.
Design Challenge: Patina Maldives design was built on growing attention to the connection with the place and culture,the importance of uniqueness and authenticity. The special role of wellness, places to exercise and meditate, a generous bathing room with a view. And most recently, of course, the need for open air spaces, a deep integration of inside-out, spaces that are welcoming and poetic, rather than sculptures. We also saw it as an ultimate stage for voyeurism, for observation of ourselves from a distance, and therefore to reconnect with
ourselves and the others. We searched for diversity, for empathy with the other and our
environment, the need for quiet solutions to our problems.
Research: The vernacular design In Maldives is basically fisherman villages spread among the islands, that sometimes one can´t even notice from the sea. Corral stone walls, wooden roof structures were some of the natural materials available to build and set an architecture fully Integrated to the nature. That was our biggest Inspiration, to respect nature and allow the guest to enjoy such a special place.
Inspiration: In the Maldives sand, skies and ocean, all architecture can do is humbly filter the lights, frame the views, creating different narratives as one strolls around the magnificent surroundings.
Patina Maldives project was able to produce architecture that is much less important than nature. Contemporary, classic and elegant.
Project Duration: The project started in 2016 and lasted for two years. The architecture team was based in São Paulo, Brazil, and had the collaboration of a local architect in the Maldives. Construction started after a year into the project, and was finished in 2021
Operation Flow: The hotel is a kaleidoscope of atmospheres organized in an ascending way: from private to public, from isolation to belonging, from simplicity to sophistication. We escalate the textures and emotions from 0 to 100, from soft shadows to overwhelming light. It’s a rhythm with contrast, pauses and transparencies. From slow dolce far niente to exuberant real vitality, it is a place for people to bond with nature and each other, for people to experience the essential with glamour.
Team Members: Marcio Kogan (author)
Renata Furnaletto (co-author)
Diana Radomysler (interior design author)
Pedro Ribeiro (interior design co-author)
Image Credits: Fernando Guerra and George Roske