In the 19th arrondissement of Paris, next to cheap residential buildings and the largest park in the French capital - La Villette, a hotel in green and blue tones has appeared, designed by the Manuelle Gautrand Architecture bureau. It accommodates 125 rooms, a lobby, a restaurant and a fitness room. The project budget was € 9.6 million, construction ended in March this year. Hipark Residence was chosen as the operator of the four-star hotel.
This building is part of a large urban development complex called Visalto. Visalto consists of three independent but adjoining buildings: an office building (24,000 m2), student dormitory (4000m2), and, in fact, the Hipark Hotel Paris la Villette (5 500 m2). The new hotel is located on the border of two different urban environments: on the west side, it opens onto Endoshin - Indochina Boulevard, where the main buildings are brick residential buildings of the interwar period, and a tram line runs. To the east, the hotel meets a less friendly landscape with the Boulevard Pereferic, Paris' ring road.
The design features of the building are due to the "constrained circumstances" of the town-planning context: the building had to fit on a narrow triangular section, while not forgetting about the walls of the existing hostel. In the east, architects were limited by a 6-meter acoustic screen (its length is about 280 m), designed to protect pedestrians from the noisy and dusty ring highway. For this part of the building, the designers had to come up with a "sloped" wall in order to leave a passage for a fire engine in accordance with safety requirements.
The broken planes of the facades, located at different angles in relation to each other, depending on the point of view, appear either lighter or darker. The cheerful palette, inspired by the tones of the sky and vegetation, was chosen by the authors for practical reasons: dust will not be noticeable on a bright surface. And, of course, the green-blue color scheme makes the building and its surroundings more joyful.
