249 Design Hotel Hospitality Building

A landscape-oriented architectural photograph presents a multi-volume hospitality building captured at evening twilight, scanning from foreground to background reveals layered spatial organization. The immediate foreground features a wide pathway of reddish-brown bricks arranged in herringbone pattern, their warm terracotta surface appearing slightly reflective as though recently touched by rain, with small circular ground lights embedded at regular intervals creating pools of warm golden illumination. Flanking this approach pathway, lush plantings of deep green ornamental grasses and tropical ferns create soft, feathery textures suggesting the yielding sensation of running fingers through dense foliage. The middle ground presents the main building facade in three distinct sections. At center stands the dominant pavilion featuring a dramatic triangular gable composed almost entirely of glass panels held within dark steel framework, through which interior spaces glow with warm honey and amber tones suggesting the comfortable warmth of firelight. Exposed timber beams in rich brown tones create the structural skeleton visible through the glazing. To the left extends a horizontal wing with multiple tiers of overhanging roofs in dark slate grey, their surfaces appearing smooth and cool like river stone. Warm light emanates from gridded windows suggesting intimate interior spaces. To the right rises a tower-like volume clad in rough-textured natural stone in grey-violet tones with the tactile quality of stacked fieldstone, punctuated by timber-framed openings. The background sky transitions from pale powder blue at top through increasingly saturated steel blue and soft cobalt toward the horizon, creating a cool atmospheric envelope that contrasts magnificently with the warm interior glow. Mature evergreen trees frame the right edge, their dark silhouettes providing vertical counterpoint to the horizontal building elements.

The 249 Design Hotel is a retrofit project inspired in the German vernacular architecture. Located in the tourist city of Gramado, the result was a project that creates a dialogue between contemporary and existing architecture in a respectful and harmonious way, using materiality as an agent of integration of everything. Steel, wood and stone are the connectors that unite the whole and bring the external area into the interior of the building. The north of the project was that we made all decisions thinking in the integration between the design and the hotel guests.