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Kuara האָטעל by David Guerra

Kuara האָטעל by David Guerra is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award אין זילבער in אַרכיטעקטור, בנין און סטרוקטור דיזײַן Competition Category.


זילבעראַרכיטעקטור· 2020

Kuara האָטעל

by David Guerra

Client: David Guerra Arquitetura e Interiores

A' Design Award אין זילבער Winner in אַרכיטעקטור Category

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The Design

About Kuara האָטעל

קואַרא איז געמאַכט פֿאַר די וואָס שטרעבן צו רו און אָפּרוען אינטעגרירט מיט דער נאַטור. א רעפֿערענץ אין הײַנטצײַטיקן דיזײַן, קולטור און גאַסטראָנאָמיע אין בראַזיל. א פּראָיעקט וואָס שאַפֿט אַ מאָדערן קאָנצעפּט פֿון בראַזיליאַנער אַרכיטעקטור. א פּריוואַטער היילאָרט, וואָס ווערט צו אַ זכּרון פֿון דער בראַזיליאַנער אידענטיטעט, דערמאָנענדיק וועגן דעם וואָס איז מער טײַער: די רײַכע בראַזיליאַנער נאַטור, ווי אַ ברייטהאַרציקע מוטער, גיט די ערשטע יסודות פֿון איבערלעבונג, אין אַן אָנציִנדיקער איינלאַדונג צו אַ געזונטער באַציִונג מיטן סבֿיבֿה, באַגרינדעט אין רעספּעקט און האַרמאָניע מיט דער נאַטור.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award אין זילבער

Kuara האָטעל איז אַ געווינער פֿון דעם A' Design Award אין זילבער, אַן אויסערגעוויינלעך פּרעסטיזשע אָנערקענונג וואָס ווערט געגעבן צו שיינע, דערהויבענע און איבערצײַגנדיקע שפּיץ-דיזײַנס. זילבער-געווינער זענען העכסט בריליאַנטע און זייער קרעאַטיווע ווערק וואָס ילוסטרירן די אויסגעצייכנטע מומחיות, טאַלאַנט און שאַרפֿזיניקייט פֿון זייערע דיזײַנערס. פֿון Kuara האָטעל ווערט דערוואַרט אַז עס איז אַ וווּנדערלעך, מוסטערהאַפֿט ווערק וואָס איז אויפֿפֿאַלנדיק פּראָפֿעסיאָנעל און טיף אינאָוואַטיוו. דער דאָזיקער געווינענדיקער דיזײַן פֿון A' Design Award אין זילבער איז אַ זייער אויפֿפֿאַלנדיקע, באַוווּנדערטע דערפֿינדונג וואָס ברענגט נוצן און שטופּט פֿאָרויס די גרענעצן פֿון קונסט, וויסנשאַפֿט, דיזײַן און טעכנאָלאָגיע. Kuara האָטעל איז אַ באַשאַפֿונג וואָס מען מקנא זײַן זי ברייט, וואָס וועקט תּאוות, ברענגט פּאָזיטיווע געפֿילן און וועקט חידוש און פֿאַרוווּנדערונג.

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

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