Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel by Dimitris Potiropoulos

Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel by Dimitris Potiropoulos is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2026 A' Design Award de Bronz in Design Generativ Competition Category.

BronzDesign Generativ· 2026

Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel

by Dimitris Potiropoulos

Client: Undisclosed

A' Design Award de Bronz Winner in Design Generativ Category

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The Design

About Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel

Text de carte: Situat pe platoul înălțat al Zlatiborului, în mijlocul unor dealuri line, păduri și întinderi deschise, complexul hotelier Arboris este conceput ca un punct focal în cadrul unei rețele stratificate de relații și conexiuni peisagistice. Cele trei volume circulare se inspiră din Peștera Stopica, unde bazinele calcaroase subterane au fost modelate în formațiuni rotunde apărute în mod natural. Această geometrie permite deschideri panoramice continue în toate direcțiile, stabilind un dialog reînnoit între forma construită și peisajul înconjurător.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronz

Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel a câștigat A' Design Award de Bronz, o recunoaștere extrem de prestigioasă acordată designurilor remarcabile care se disting prin creativitate, ingeniozitate și istețime. Câștigătorii Bronzului sunt artefacte din plin pricepute și izbitor de creative, care atestă experiența vastă, imaginația și resursele designerilor lor. Se așteaptă ca Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel să fie un obiect foarte apreciat, admirat și prețuit, remarcabil de profesionist și inovator. Acest design câștigător al A' Design Award de Bronz încorporează cele mai bune practici din artă, știință, design și tehnologie și este excelent prin atenția la detalii. Arboris Funcție principală: Hotel satisface splendid nevoile, atinge dorințele, vrăjește sentimentele și stârnește curiozitatea.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The building geometry allows for uniform, panoramic openings in all directions, redefining the relationships between architecture and landscape. The three ring shaped formations develop around a central outdoor core, creating a kind of protected hollow. The circular courtyards function as vertical light wells while simultaneously extending the landscape into the interior of the buildings.
Dimensions & Packaging: The surrounding landscape is defined by a large water surface and extensive planting. The lake acts as the primary reference point, offering a calm, natural backdrop to the overall experience, while simultaneously contributing, together with the greenery, to a microclimatic regulation. The hard surfaces of the outdoor areas, composed of natural and recycled materials, allow for water infiltration, have a low energy footprint, long lifespan, and minimal maintenance requirements.
Tags: architecture, hospitality, hotel, Serbia, design
Production Technology: The extensive wooded landscape of Zlatibor directly informed the materiality of the project. The timber louvers of the facade imply the rhythm of the surrounding forest while providing solar shading and enhancing the energy performance of the building envelope. Integrated with glazed surfaces, the shading elements reflect the environment, allowing the building volumes to visually transform and acquire an almost landscape quality.
Design Challenge: The dialogue between ARBORIS Hotel and the natural landscape of Zlatibor emerges as a primary experiential element, defining the way the complex is conceptualised and takes form.
Research: The narrative is deeply embedded in a continuous process of hiding, revealing, and engaging between the user and nature. Within this interactive and creative approach, architecture functions as a mechanism of integration between modes of inhabitation determined by the landscape, movement patterns and views, constructing a coherent experience deeply connected to its natural surroundings.
Inspiration: On the elevated plateau of Zlatibor, among mildly sloping hills, forests, and open flat areas, the ARBORIS Hotel tourist complex is conceived as a node within a complex network of landscape conditions. The three circular volumes draw their inspiration from Stopica Cave, a system of underground limestone basins formed in natural circular geometries. The rationale of these concave forms served as an influence on the overall scheme geometry, distinct circular units organized around an internal courtyard, shaping a clear spatial character.
Project Duration: Design 2025
Location Zlatibor, Serbia
Operation Flow: Τhe green roofs of the buildings, providing outdoor lounging areas and viewing points, contribute both to the environmental performance of the complex and to the perception of a continuity across the landscape and the built forms. Although distinct in presence, the three buildings are integrated into the plateau s ecosystem, interact with the landscape and emphasize the natural character of the terrain.
Team Members: Architectural Design Potiropoulos+Partners
3D Visualization Potiropoulos+Partners
Image Credits: Architectural Design Potiropoulos+Partners
3D Visualization Potiropoulos+Partners