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ESTUDIO VIVIANA MELAMED

ESTUDIO VIVIANA MELAMED

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ESTUDIO VIVIANA MELAMED

ESTUDIO VIVIANA MELAMED

Location Argentina
Categories Interior Design  >  Hotels

Description Original Language (Spanish)

HOTEL HUINID OBELISCO,
Buenos Aires, downtown Buenos Aires - theater area

Viviana Melamed Study
We work on the complete Interior architecture of the Hotel, the definition of each surface, the floors, the carpets, the lighting, the design of all the furniture and equipment of public areas and rooms and with MATRIZ Design we had the opportunity to produce the furniture for the areas public.

There were four years of process, working as a team with the Raele architecture studio and with the clients who were involved in the day-to-day of the process.
The Hotel has two blocks that are interconnected at various levels.
One is a recycling of an old naval depot from the beginning of the last century, plus an addition of a new block of Rooms and other uses.

From the entrance, one after the other, each situation that arises is one of attraction and surprise. A large access atrium with four free levels in height, crossed by bridges, accessible from a series of balconies and patios in height, where everything that we proposed regarding public activities are visually crossed, thus the FRONT area succeeds and interconnects, LOBBY, LOBBY BAR, LOUNGE, RESTAURANT accessed by an emblematic staircase in iron and wood.
We decided to give importance to the historic preserved iron columns, treat them, surround them, illuminate them.

To accentuate the height in the lobby we designed a large wooden paneling with lighting on which each of the situations that are happening are supported.
Natural and treated wood, natural linens, patinated metals, marble, reflections, backlit surfaces, lighting fixtures specially designed by our studio and produced in original, ceramics, porcelain tiles, mirrors, textures, stucco, leather.

A great site-specific mural by Leandro Egido,
We had the opportunity to design and develop some of the surface materials, such as that sequence of ceramic tiles designed one by one to compose two situations for wall tiles and table tops.

Or like the mural we had hand-painted over a design for a wall of very special proportions in the breakfast area.

Several were the challenges that we went through in the process, the definition of the areas of use, we evaluated and discarded a number of options during the four years in which we accompanied the tasks.
The resolution of the breakfast area that we had to study very in detail what resources we put into play to give life to that which was an area without natural light and with low ceilings, and working with clear surfaces, with mirrored planes, others with backlit glass, more coatings with character and the right equipment.

Or the recovery and enhancement of some relatively small sectors that we designed to be gym, spa, outdoor terraces for wellness and yoga.
Or the challenge of lighting that great four-story high atrium, a great moment when we were able to turn those lights on and see that what we had designed worked as is, of those unforgettable moments of the race, milestones.

Or the definition of the language of the rooms, where even each image of photos hanging on the walls was designed, selected and curated by our Studio

Team part:

VIVIANA MELAMED STUDIO, interior architecture.
Viviana Melamed, MDI architect
Gabriela Ebrase, architect
Laura Rojas, architect
Genesis Lepage, architect


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