arcadia hotel

  • The Arcadia hotel is located on the first square one encounters entering the city of Tripoli on the Peloponnese. Since pre-war times a hotel was situated here, originally three floors high, and later extended to five. In order to create the contemporary but comfortable appearance required, the hotel was entirely renovated both internally and externally.

    The renovated hotel consists of a basement with supplemental uses, a ground floor with the reception lobby, cafe-restaurant and the kitchen, a mezzanine with a meeting space and a television room and five floors with eight rooms each.

    To emphasize the clarity of the design, white and black are the dominant colours of the materials applied, leading to an environment of modest, relaxing luxury, and to emphasize the architectural solutions without tiring the visitor. Apart from the graphic interventions, decorative elements were therefore avoided. In the elevation interventions were limited. The glass boards of the balconies were engraved with graphics similar to the ones used in the rooms of the hotel, to predispose the visitors from the outside.

  • Το ξενοδοχείο Αρκαδία βρίσκεται στην πρώτη πλατεία που συναντά κανείς, μπαίνοντας στην Τρίπολη. Λειτουργεί από την εποχή του μεσοπολέμου και αρχικά ήταν ένα τριώροφο κτίριο. Στη νέα του μορφή το ξενοδοχείο αποτελείται από ένα υπόγειο βοηθητικών χρήσεων, ισόγειο με υποδοχή, εστιατόριο και κουζίνα, ημιώροφο με αίθουσα συσκέψεων και τηλεόρασης και πέντε ορόφους των οκτώ δωματίων ο καθένας.

    Επιδίωξη της μελέτης ήταν να δημιουργηθεί ένα περιβάλλον που θα αποπνέει την επιθυμητή αίσθηση πολυτέλειας εκφρασμένη με απλό και λιτό τρόπο, ώστε να μην κουράζει τον επισκέπτη και να ανα- δεικνύονται οι αρχιτεκτονικές λύσεις. Τα χρώματα που κυριαρχούν είναι το λευκό και το μαύρο, που συναντώνται σε όλα τα υλικά που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν. Είναι μια επιλογή καθαρών χρωμάτων που έγινε συνειδητά με στόχο να τονιστεί η λιτότητα και καθαρότητα των μορφών. Χαρακτηριστική είναι η έλλειψη διακοσμητικών στοιχείων με μοναδική εξαίρεση τις γραφιστικές θεματικές απεικονίσεις. Στην όψη, τα χαραγμένα γραφιστικά των στηθαίων από plexi-glass προϊδεάζουν τον επισκέπτη για μια σειρά από συνθέσεις που μοιράζονται στα δωμάτια του ξενοδοχείου.

arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
hideout suites
hideout suites
hideout suites
“the glass boards of the balconies were engraved with graphics similar to the ones used in the rooms of the hotel, to predispose the visitors from the outside”
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel
“to emphasize the clarity of the design, white and black are the dominant colours of the materials applied, leading to an environment of modest, relaxing luxury”
hideout suites
arcadia hotel
arcadia hotel

credits

location
Tripoli, Greece

client
Arcadia Hotel
Arkadiki Filoxenia SA

design
2008, completed 2008

team
Tasos Gousis
Joost Frijda
Eddie Roberts
Fotini Anagnostou

structural design
Panagiotis Poniridis

mechanical design
Filopimin Kardaras

graphical design
Vangelis Tzimopoulos

construction
Arktos Construction – Ioannis Karabelas

photographs
Fotis Traganoudakis

publications

Hotel Restaurant & Bars

publications hotelrestaurantbar 00

Design Media, Hong Kong 2011, ISBN 978-9881506900

Hotels 2

publications xeno 00

Contemporary Greek Architecture, KTIRIO, 2011, ISBN: 978-960-6803-10-9

EK magazine

publications ek138 00

#138, June 2009

linear flow under construction

13/12/2021

embassy of ireland

1/10/2020
A subtle sense of Ireland in the recently completed refurbishment of the Embassy of Ireland in Athens.

hidden hill published

6/4/2020
Hidden Hill project in Naxos has been covered and published in KTIRIO magazine!

happy new year!

1/1/2020
GFRA wishes you a happy and creative 2020!

we are live!

1/12/2019

Redesigned and fully responsive new GFRA website is now online!
Wonderfully designed by two de. and skilfully developed by dual.design

symposium

2/11/2019

GFRA is proud to support the Socially Engaged Design for Disaster Relief symposium at the Benaki Museum

cards

18/9/2019

Play Scrabble with the new GFRA cards designed by two de.

danish embassy

10/7/2019

A small project for the Danish Embassy in Athens has been completed. Light and minimal "Danish design" not to interfere with the existing embassy building.

open house

5/4/2019

Open House Athens is on its way! Featuring both the Norwegian and the Australian embassy!

Check out the spot on Youtube!

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