When driving along the Sevastopol-Yalta highway, in the Ponizovka area, a breathtaking view of a giant flower by the sea suddenly opens up: this is the recently completed facility of Sberbank of Russia, the 5-star Mriya Resort & Spa hotel designed by the Norman Foster architectural bureau. Design began in 2010, and the hotel opened at the end of 2014.
The hotel and resort complex "Mriya" (that is, "dream") is a worthy heir to the Crimean health resorts of the Soviet era, where cosmonauts and general secretaries rested, the most popular places for recreation and effective sanatorium treatment. Impressive architecture and a high level of comfort attract guests there: the load of Mriya in the high season is constantly close to 100%, the quality of service and infrastructure has been awarded many international prizes. The five-star hotel with 425 luxury rooms and 17 villas, including two presidential and three premium, is combined with international medical and spa centers, as well as a unique personalized medicine clinic. Also, on an area of 12.8 hectares, you can find a congress center, swimming pools and courts, a gym, cinemas, an amphitheater for concerts and performances, a Japanese garden and much more.
Among the many awards Mriya Resort & SPA is the most prestigious World Travel Awards, « Oscar "in the world of hotel business, in the nominations "Leading New Resort in Europe" (2015), "Leading Resort in Europe for Leisure" (2017 and 2019), "Leading Resort in Europe for Business Travel" (2017 and 2019), as well as "Leading Global Premium Family Resort "(2018)," World's Leading Vacation Resort "(2017 and 2018)," World's Leading Premium Resort Resort "(2018).
The hotel's bold design was designed by the famous British architect Norman Foster. The complex is located on the first coastline, its territory with lush greenery typical for the region smoothly turns into a wonderful beach area. The hotel rooms offer a spectacular view of the Black Sea, vineyards and mountains of the South Coast of Crimea.
The composition of the building with five "petals" - four buildings and a swimming pool - is perfectly integrated into the spectacular landscape of the sea coast. Instead of a monolithic massive volume, the designers proposed an organic form of four parts, commensurate with the environment and the person. Thanks to this solution, all rooms received wonderful views. This is facilitated by the location of the panoramic windows at an angle towards the sea. This solution provided the interiors with privacy and the façade surfaces with a lively rhythm.
The heart of Mriya Resort & SPA is a 30-meter atrium uniting all levels with a spectacular glass spiral staircase. In the design of public areas, special attention was paid to the lighting concept that creates a special, festive mood, as well as to the quality of the selected materials and ornamental surface treatment. The organic shapes of the furnishings, including the reception desk, create a relaxed, relaxing atmosphere. The extensive use of glazing ensures a constant connection between the interior and the natural surroundings of the hotel.
The top of the giant "flower" is a complex roofing system with atriums in each petal. At the request of the architect, the roof should be optically integrated into the surrounding mountain-water landscape with steep slopes and a huge “patio” - the Black Sea. Therefore, metal roofing panels (paintings) of the color of aged bronze (antique bronze), which gilded from the hot southern sun as a precious artifact of Taurida and at the same time echoes the reddishness of the Ai-Petrinskaya yayla, are the best fit for the plan.
Atriums are a translucent membrane system from Novum Structures (ETFE inflatable multilayer cushions). And more and more large-span petal structures gracefully overlap lightweight aluminum roofing panels BEMO SYSTEMS (antique bronze) with a special BEMO-FLON coating (water / dirt repellent, UV resistant, can be easily restored on site). But behind this lightness and grace lies a tremendous amount of work in the design, manufacture and installation of roofing paintings on site.
The design engineers of VEMO faced a difficult task - in the center of the building on a relatively small area, a steep drop in the roof plane was actually 2 floors. It was a real challenge, but the company's roofing team of technicians did it! To solve this problem, BEMO MONRO standing seam pictures were used - free-form, besides curved in three planes.
Deep engineering combined with production capabilities made it possible to obtain, on the one hand, a filigree solution of the plane and, at the same time, the ease and accuracy of its implementation on the construction site, facilitating the work of installers and guaranteeing impeccable quality. Since most of the design and manufacturing work is done in the design office and in the BEMO production, right down to the mounting holes, the human factor and other risks are minimized. Each element of the system is numbered according to the main criteria and directions of installation, in accordance with the detailed design, and is assembled at the construction site like a Lego constructor.
Especially for this project, BEMO completed the development and implementation of the unique BEMO-FLEX leveling subsystem, for which the internal software was adapted, allowing, on the basis of laser 3D scanning of the main structure of the building, to generate a complete set of substructure, which displays the plane in the required parameters of bends Parametric analysis was used to accurately determine the anchor points and holder positions for standing seam paintings.
Thanks to the use of metal elements - BEMO-FLEX support structures - the patented BEMO-MONRO system can be flexibly adapted to almost any building geometry
Often, each individual profile that is installed on a free-form roof is unique. Metal profiles created from 3D projection data are formed in one production step with millimeter precision specifically for the measured part of the roof.
The BEMO MONRO system is usually used in combination with the BEMO-FLEX 3D adjustable support structure. This makes it easy and quick to compensate for unevenness in the supporting structure. The planning of the installation of the system is carried out already at the BEMO 3D design stage, and then, if necessary, is corrected, based on the results of the 3D scanning of the actual supporting structure of the building.
Subsequently worked out and patented, a similar approach was implemented on a project in Taiwan, and also pushed to implement even more complex projects using a combination of BEMO-MONRO and BEMO-FLEX.
The new Mriya Resort hotel not only adorned the Black Sea coast, but also in the field of building technologies became an example of a parametric solution of a support subsystem for the implementation of roofs of complex geometry, skillfully and accurately translating the architect's idea into reality.
