It has been a long time since we featured a project by Anoushka Hempel Design within Sleeper Magazine, but her re-appearance in these pages is set to be suitably dramatic, judging by these advance visuals of the Warapuru Spa, Resort & Hotel, currently under construction near Iticare on the north coast of Brazil.
Described as "an astounding architectural achievement where perceptions and perimeters of gravity and design are pushing the boundaries in the world of contemporary architecture," the hotel concept will be a bold linear construction where horizontal and vertical lines are broken by unexpected diagonal lines, jutting out of the hillside as well as out of the main building bearing a suspended, elongated steel aquamarine pool, in the form of a long water box of crisp ice blue water rippling into space.
The roof-tops are intricate and highly complex structures of sliding roofs and canvasses: all re-designed "around the very first inventions of the wheel and its motion." Lighting throughout the buildings is positioned to maximise the reflections and requirements of the spaces on all levels.
The main villa and the bungalows are scattered on the coastal resort of Warapuru. The coast-line below the resort is reached by a gradual stepped landscape of long mahogany platforms, seemingly floating over the sand and pebble ground, which lead to the beach beyond.
Upon arrival, guests can expect to enter "another world of yoga, fine beauty treatments, water, well-being, physical fitness, microsurgery, and more." Opening is scheduled for spring 2006.
