Traveling can be an emotional experience.
The Journey Hotel
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Jaén, Spain
Sancal, Santa&Cole & Masiero
The Journey Hotel:
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Traveling can be an emotional experience, and hotel design offers a unique opportunity to enrich that journey.
In today's fast-paced world, everything seems to move at breakneck speed, while rest is slowly regaining its original meaning. Traveling connects us deeply with the discovery of a place, creating a relationship not only with the destination, but also with ourselves.
Discovering a new place means immersing yourself in its culture and getting to know its people and surroundings. Traveling can be seen as a brief pause along the way, but in reality it allows you to live the local experience if you are willing to seek out the true essence of the place, slowing down and relieving the anxiety that often accompanies exploration.
– Jaén, Spain.
The project shows how The Journey dissolves traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, emphasizing a continuous connection with its surroundings. Rather than a static form, the building responds dynamically to its context, allowing natural elements such as vegetation to be introduced and soften the interior spaces.
The ground floor, although discreetly located behind the large entrance plaza, maintains a direct connection with the adjacent shopping center. This fluid connection is reinforced by carefully modulated materials and a spatial sequence in which thresholds adapt to varying degrees of privacy and openness.
Permeability becomes a key design strategy, establishing a constant dialogue between the building, its users, and the surrounding urban fabric, inviting visitors to slow down and fully immerse themselves in the experience.
The spatial organization of The Journey is conceived as a flexible and porous system, where multiple environments coexist within open structures. Common areas prioritize permeability, encouraging interaction and fluid movement between people and spaces. The landscape plays a fundamental role, extending the green areas from the exterior to the interior of the building and blurring the boundary between inside and outside.
By prioritizing adaptability in its spatial configuration, The Journey transcends the traditional concept of a hotel to become a living ecosystem, where every corner invites discovery and conviviality.
Traveling for the the contemporary traveler
Beyond the traditional hotel
Listening to the local community allows us to learn and pursue an authentic experience, integrating ourselves into their customs and understanding that the hotel should be part of that adventure. Traveling, an everyday activity that is part of our daily lives, takes us on trips for work, leisure, family, or the desire to discover new places. Here, we view travel as a process of learning and experience.
This philosophy is reflected in the hotel's design. The result is The Journey, a project that explores the relationship between the permeability of active spaces and the uses they accommodate, with the aim of offering flexibility and responding to the needs of those who inhabit them.
A fundamental pillar is the immediate and direct relationship that the hotel establishes with its surroundings, in this case the Jaén Plaza shopping center, which transforms the traditional concept of a hotel.
This means that, rather than simply offering a place to sleep, The Journey provides spaces that serve both its residents and their surroundings. As a result, it is characterized by the permeability and porosity of its common areas. In this sense, the building is understood as flexible, not so much because of its shape, but because of its spatial organization, where the same space can accommodate multiple environments that adapt efficiently to the needs of users.
It is in this dissolution of boundaries and in the relationship between the spaces served and those serving them that the true value of The Journey lies. The ground floor, although initially hidden behind the large plaza that presents it to the shopping center, maintains its desire for connection, being conquered by the green areas that extend inward as a natural extension. Similarly, the materiality of the boundaries is defined with greater or lesser intensity depending on the degree of privacy and relationship with the exterior.
A fundamental pillar is the immediate and direct relationship that the hotel establishes with its surroundings, in this case the Jaén Plaza shopping center, which transforms the traditional concept of a hotel.
This means that, rather than simply offering a place to sleep, The Journey provides spaces that serve both those who live there and their surroundings. As a result, it is characterized by the permeability and porosity of its common areas.
In this sense, the building is understood to be flexible, not so much because of its shape, but because of its spatial organization, where the same space can accommodate multiple environments that adapt efficiently to the needs of users.
El viaje es una experiencia que redefine el espacio,
el lugar y el ser
The journey is an experience that redefines space, place, and being