Cascade Hotel, Chalkidiki
This new hotel is designed in an olive grove with views towards the sea. Its focus will be its restaurant, since its owners already own a highly successful restaurant in Thessaloniki. Therefore this new culinary destination in Elia Nikitis, in Chalkidiki, is differentiated from the hotels that happen to have a restaurant. The gourmet culture not only gives primacy to the new restaurant (first impression upon arrival), it also introduces the food culture within the room itself: local specialties are featured on the interior (a display of unique items that reverses the typical concealment of generic products in a mini bar) and eating areas claim particular importance in each room. The restaurant, open only for dinner to the general public, redefines luxury by introducing extensive shallow water surfaces. Between the restaurant and rooms, front of house areas (including an impressive pool) are to be found. Higher up on the slope, 15 rooms retain a low profile with their single floor arrangement, ensuring unobstructed views towards the sea. Landscape becomes here paramount, maintaining the natural ground between the buildings, introducing green roofs and by recessing the facades –with their slim profiles towards the view, the rooms look as if they are shadows in the olive grove.
- Status Preliminary Design
- Year 2014 - 2015
- Location Elia, Chalkidiki