Kuara ہوٹل by David Guerra is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award چاندی دا انعام in فنِ تعمیر، عمارت تے ڈھانچا ڈیزائن Competition Category.

چاندیفنِ تعمیر· 2020

Kuara ہوٹل

by David Guerra

Client: David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores

A' Design Award چاندی دا انعام Winner in فنِ تعمیر Category

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The Design

About Kuara ہوٹل

کوآرا انہاں لئی بنایا گیا ہے جیہڑے آرام تے سکون دی تلاش وچ ہن تے قدرت نال رَل مِل کے رہنا چاہندے ہن۔ برازیل وچ عصری ڈیزائن، ثقافت تے کھانیاں دی روایت دا اک حوالہ۔ اے اک ایجھا منصوبہ ہے جیہڑا برازیلی فنِ تعمیر دا جدید تصور پیش کریندا ہے۔ اک ذاتی پناہ گاہ، جیہڑی برازیلی شناخت توں یادداشت بن جاندی ہے، ساکوں یاد دواندی ہے کہ سب توں قیمتی چیز کیا ہے: امیر برازیلی قدرت، سخی ماں وانگر، بقا دیاں بنیادی ضرورتاں فراہم کریندی ہے، ماحول نال صحت مند رشتہ رکھݨ دی اک دلکش دعوت وچ، جیہڑا قدرت نال احترام تے ہم آہنگی وچ قائم ہے۔

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award چاندی دا انعام

Kuara ہوٹل A' Design Award چاندی دا انعام دا جتݨ والا ہے، غیر معمولی حد تئیں معزز پچھاݨ جیڑھی اعلیٰ ترین درجے دے، شاندار تے متاثر کرݨ والے ڈیزائناں کوں ݙتی ویندی ہے۔ چاندی دے جتݨ والے بہوں روشن تے انتہائی تخلیقی کم ہن، جیڑھے اپݨے ڈیزائنراں دی شاندار مہارت، صلاحیت تے ذہانت کوں ظاہر کریندے ہن۔ Kuara ہوٹل کنوں امید کیتی ویندی ہے جو او ہک شاندار نمائشی کم ہوسی، قابل ذکر حد تئیں پیشہ ورانہ تے گہری جدت والا۔ ایہ ڈیزائن جنہاں A' Design Award چاندی دا انعام جتیا ہے، ہک انتہائی قابل ذکر، سراہی ہوئی ایجاد ہے جیڑھی فائدہ ݙیندی ہے تے فن، سائنس، ڈیزائن تے ٹیکنالوجی دیاں حداں ودھیندی ہے۔ Kuara ہوٹل ہک ایجھی تخلیق ہے جنہاں تے ڈھیر لوک حسد کریندے ہن، جیڑھی خواہشاں جگیندی ہے، مثبت جذبے آݨیندی ہے تے حیرت تے تعجب دی چنگاری بالیندی ہے۔

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: The architecture, thought primordially in establishing solid symbiosis with the richness of the reserve, in a vernacular and modern construction, also answers to the sophistication, essential to every refugee destined for leisure and resting. Therefore, the briefing asked for a modern and established project, which could underline the privilege of being constructed in a preserved rain forest area. This dialogue merges with architectural and interior details, that rescues the Brazilian bossa.
Dimensions & Packaging: The complexity demanded not just the rough work of experienced carpenters, but the creation of an entire workshop on site to optimize the job. Bamboo, natural fibers, straw, wicker, leather, Brazilian stones, and other handmade elements counterbalance with Florim stones, imported from Italy, used in floors and bathrooms, which despite presenting an industrialized production of the highest standard, still presents the sensation of natural rock, without the inconvenient of water infiltration.
Tags: hotel, brazil, tropical, wood, sun, nature, bahia
Production Technology: In the choosing of materials, it has become necessary to use diversity, in the search for interaction, with great focus in the beauty of wood, in its natural state, executed with perfection by carpenters, whom were disciples of the master Zanine Caldas. The work is abundant in the surfaces, such as floor and walls, as well as architectural elements like venetians, brise soleils, and standard panels, with species like cumaru, tatajuba, ipe and peroba.
Design Challenge: This richness of memory and diversity could not be ignored, opting, thereby, for the preservation of all native vegetation, using the structure of the old hotel to build the new one on the same places as the old buildings. The landscape architecture takes that into account.
Research: This lush nature is inserted on site, since way before the idea of an occupation. An organic composition, which main axis is the Mucuge river. The rain forest flourishes in conjunction with the mangue (a kind of swamp endemic for this region, which hosts a unique biome), between the famous cliffs of Arraial DAjuda. The 200 meters of beach take us to the unforgettable horizon offered by the Atlantic Ocean, on which, about 500 years ago, the portuguese caravelas came from the west, beginning a new phase on Brazilian history.
Inspiration: Kuara, meaning sun for the indigenous Tupi-Guarani. The house of Tupan, the supreme god. Kuara Delivers, every day, energy, heat, life, all elements that make Bahia, the province on which the portuguese discoverers disembarked in Brazil. The Brazilian, indigenous at first, but not only, mixed through dozens of generations, in an ethnic pluralism, bringing an unique diversity to our people, strength in a fascinating narrative about the roots of this country.
Project Duration: The project started in Arraial DAjuda, Brazil, in 2010, and finished on site in 2017. The hotel inaugurated in the end of 2017.
Operation Flow: Privacy, intimacy, and silence were key words in the program of necessities. Also, the sounds from the waves and birds, the aroma of the vegetation and the sea, and of course the unforgettable views from the very preserved coastline, were treated as untouchable, and make the stay in Kuara not only a time of opportunity and relaxing, but active experience of contact with nature.
Team Members: Jefferson Gurgel
Nínive Resende
Bernardo Hauck
Letícia Thibau
Image Credits: Image #1: Jomar Bragança
Image #2: Jomar Bragança
Image #3: Jomar Bragança
Image #4: Jomar Bragança
Image #5: Jomar Bragança
Video Credits: Coletivo Imaginário