Hotel Quartier 65
The idea was to fit a new 6-room hotel into the existing protected ensemble of parcel-type buildings in Mainz. Surrounded by a heterogeneous building substance and separated by the train tracks and the Wormser Strasse, the lot lies direct on the Rhein.
The house is conceived as a monolithic form, a reduction of the local typology to its pure volumetric abstraction. In order to manifest the urbanity of the building body, the house sculpture and the row-house archetype, all of the external surfaces; forecourt, courtyard, walls and roof are carried out in smooth-even stone-work.
The narrow standing-format windows lie flush with the façade in order to strengthen the monolithic quality of the whole.
The house is entered over a slightly raised forecourt. A plant bed is inserted into the middle. The bar and reception area is reached through one of the large entrance doors. This area occupies the entire ground floor and extends spatially onto the front-side forecourt and the backside courtyard.
The bar stands as a piece of furniture centrally located in the room. The staircase is contained on the other side of the bar. This principle of a piece of furniture, additionally defined by the colour concept, articulates the entire project.
The two rooms on each of the upper floors lie on a corridor. The corridor stretches the entire length of the house culminating with a view onto the Rhein. All of the service rooms are located in a projection of the lot line and distributed throughout the floors of the house.