The Lake Congress Hotel_Ioannina
It is a new five-star hospitality infrastructure with 41 rooms, with indoor and outdoor multi-purpose event spaces in the lakeside location of Limnopoula, in Ioannina Greece
The aim from the beginning was to translate tradition, folk art and vernacular architecture with modern methodology in the design of luxury hospitality infrastructure, having as a start a building shell with several traditional elements
Tradition is introduced allegorically by the parking spaces with antique concrete blocks in red clay and ochre colors, while popular elements of folk art and craft motifs are rendered with contemporary materials on the floors, walls and ceilings of the interiors
The total surrounding area of 10 acres is divided into various areas of functionality with the materiality of tradition and the color palette of the local architecture to be organically integrated into the wider area. Similarly, the entire planting design was moved in a unified direction highlighting an unpretentious naturalness with minimum human intervention, while at night the warm LED architectural lighting incorporates an interplay of shadows and shapes among the rusticity of the textures and materiality
