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Press Contact: Renate Janner International PR [email protected] +49 40 533 083 46 Cristina Lovati Press Office Italy [email protected] + 39 02 655 69 11 Matteo Thun & Partners Via Appiani 9 20121 Milano www.matteothun.com VENICE: AN ISLAND TRANSFORMS INTO A LUXURY RESORT JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA In the Venetian lagoon, an artificial island has been transformed into a luxury resort and park. The island, built in 1860 is a state-protected landscape and has about twenty early-twentieth-century buildings, including a hospital and service buildings. The project’s complexity was managed through a shift in scale from the macro (masterplan) to the micro (details) by Matteo Thun + Partners. All existing buildings have been ‘touched’ by the architects while closely collaborating with the superintendence of Venice - from the very early phase until the resort’s inauguration. The masterplan reorganizes the island into three main parts, each defined by its green areas. The first zone hosts the main hotel building (ex-hospital), a conference centre and an Art Nouveau brick residence. By largely following the layout of interiors from pre-war Italian rationalism with wide corridors, glass doors and terraces, Matteo Thun + Partners adapted the area of the ex- hospital (1936) to its reuse as main building of the luxury hotel, with 230 contemporary Venetian-style suites. The main architectural change in this building was the design of the generous rooftop terrace with the creation of the infinity pool and panoramic restaurant with a view on St. Mark’s square. JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA THE MASTERPLAN MAIN HOTEL BUILDING 1 2 A B C D E F G 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 14 15 17 18 16 19 26 25 24 20 12 21 1 The Hotel Main Building 2 Group Access Dock 3 The Villa 4 Water Tower 5 Administrative Offices 6 Board Rooms 7 Congress Center 8 La Residenza Suites 9 Covered Dock 10 Spa 11 Treatments 12 Storage 14 Gym/Fitness + Staff 15 L'Uliveto 16 Olive Grove 17 La Maisonette Suites 18 "The Church" multifunctional space 19 Dopolavoro Dining Room 20Deposit 21 Energy Building 24Pop - Out Restaurant 25Family Pool 26Catering Area BUILDINGS CIRCULATION & SERVICES A Arrival + Departure Point B Group Arrival/Departure C Service Dock D Conference Dock E Spa/Treatment Dock F New Canal and Public Dock G Water Square Restaurant's Darsena JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA MAP 01
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Press Contact: Renate Janner
International PR
+49 40 533 083 46
Cristina Lovati
Press Office Italy
+ 39 02 655 69 11
Matteo Thun & PartnersVia Appiani 9
20121 Milano
www.matteothun.com
VENICE: AN ISLAND TRANSFORMS INTO A LUXURY RESORT
JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA
In the Venetian lagoon, an artificial island has been transformed into a luxury resort and park. The island, built in 1860 is a state-protected landscape and has about twenty early-twentieth-century buildings, including a hospital and service buildings. The project’s complexity was managed through a shift in scale from the macro (masterplan) to the micro (details) by Matteo Thun + Partners.
All existing buildings have been ‘touched’ by the architects while closely collaborating with the superintendence of Venice - from the very early phase until the resort’s inauguration.
The masterplan reorganizes the island into three main parts, each defined by its green areas. The first zone hosts the main hotel building (ex-hospital), a conference centre and an Art Nouveau brick residence.
By largely following the layout of interiors from pre-war Italian rationalism with wide corridors, glass doors and terraces, Matteo Thun + Partners adapted the area of the ex-hospital (1936) to its reuse as main building of the luxury hotel, with 230 contemporary Venetian-style suites. The main architectural change in this building was the design of the generous rooftop terrace with the creation of the infinity pool and panoramic restaurant with a view on St. Mark’s square.
JW MARRIOTT VENICERESORT & SPA
THE MASTERPLAN
MAIN HOTELBUILDING
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1 The Hotel Main Building 2 Group Access Dock3 The Villa 4 Water Tower 5 Administrative Offices 6 Board Rooms
7 Congress Center 8 La Residenza Suites9 Covered Dock10 Spa11 Treatments12 Storage
14 Gym/Fitness + Staff15 L'Uliveto16 Olive Grove17 La Maisonette Suites18 "The Church"
multifunctional space
19 Dopolavoro Dining Room20 Deposit21 Energy Building24 Pop - Out Restaurant25 Family Pool 26 Catering Area
BUILDINGS CIRCULATION & SERVICES
A Arrival + Departure Point B Group Arrival/Departure C Service Dock D Conference DockE Spa/Treatment Dock
F New Canal and Public DockG Water Square Restaurant's
Darsena
JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPA MAP
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Press Contact: Renate Janner
International PR
+49 40 533 083 46
Cristina Lovati
Press Office Italy
+ 39 02 655 69 11
Matteo Thun & PartnersVia Appiani 9
20121 Milano
www.matteothun.com
Adjacent to the main hotel complex, is a conference centre and the historical house of the formers hospital director: an Art Nouveau brick residence, converted into a stylish holiday villa with a private garden, pool and spectacular views of Venice. Behind this, the old hospital’s formal gardens have been restored to their original layout to enhance the island’s scenery.
The next green belt hosts all the early-twentieth-century buildings: various brick blocks of different dimensions that have been restored according to the “box in a box” concept: building inside the old walls in order to protect the historic character of the buildings as encouraged by the latest heritage conservation guidelines. A team of restoration-specialists supported the architects to follow one of their main goals: preserve the historic value and ‘patina’ of the ancient walls.
“La Maisonette” and “La Residenza” with generous suites, private gardens and pools and for the treatment buildings the “box in the box” principle has been applied, using different variations of the concept. An accurate analysis of every single existing building helped the architects to always find the best proper renovation techniques for each of the constructions.“La Maisonette” was reconstructed by inserting a concrete and steel-structure inside the old brick walls creating a two storey building while a copper roof was added on the top of it. For “La Residenza” with its beautiful ancient wooden roof structure and Zen atrium wooden prefab boxes have been chosen to realize the “box in the box” concept. Matteo Thun + Partners placed these white boxes, where all suites are hosted, around the atrium.
Further construction methods have been applied to a series of buildings present on the island, always with the maintenance of the historic character in mind.Beside the recreation of the ancient façade, the original ground plan of the former Dopolavoro building, where the islands’ workers spent their free time after work (=dopo lavoro), has been recreated by an open steel structure. Today the building hosts the resorts’ fine dining “Dopolavoro Dining Room”, located directly at the islands’ private landing stage.Parts of the Spa with its wooden pitched roof and uniquely shaped windows of the former stables have been screened with a steel grid, inspired by the ancient shops of Venetian alleys, it provides shade to the Spa interiors. A yoga and meditation garden separates Spa and treatment buildings.
Beyond the recreated olive grove and historical park, a geometrical garden opens onto a large vegetable garden serving the resort’s restaurants. A third green belt is planted with turnips and used for soil regeneration. The reopening of the island’s buried canal makes it possible to live an authentic Venetian atmosphere, surrounded by nature and calm.
The project’s focus on the lagoonscape—water, slowness, and silence—is linked to consistent choices of locally available materials (brick and tiles, glass, mirrors, and Venetian textiles) in a contemporary key, without any sense of nostalgia or historicism. It is a unique place that caters to the upmarket tourist who wants an outstanding location offering “luxury through subtraction.” Away from the noise and bustle, and above all, without creating useless waste. JW Marriott Venice Spa & Resort is, in fact, an innovative luxury resort, a “three zero” village, both in its construction and in its subsequent management: zero kilometres, zero CO2, zero waste.
"BOX IN THE BOX"
"LA MAISONETTE" +"LA RESIDENZA"
PRESERVING THE HISTORIC VALUE
THE ISLANDS' GARDENS
"THREE ZERO"VILLAGE
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Laguna di Venezia (IT)Timing: 2011-2015Built surface: 13.457 smqIsland surface: 160.269 smqServices: Masterplan, Architecture, Interior design, Styling, Light design, Lanscaping
World Travel Award - Europe's Leading New Hotel 2015Senses Wellness Award 2015 - Best New European SpaWellness Travel Awards 2015 - Best for Beauty and Best for the WOW Factor MIPIM Award 2016 - Best Hotel & Tourism ResortHospitality Design Award 2016 - ResortsWorld Luxury Spa Awards 2016Italian Pool Award 2016European Hotel Design Award 2016 - Architeture / Adaptive ReuseEuropean Hotel Design Award 2016 - Interior / SuitesEuropean Hotel Design Award of the Year 2016
Outdoor: Roda, Kettal, Tuuci, Ethimo, Unopiù, SimesLighting: Artemide, Zumtobel, Muuto, & Traditions, Lightyears, CTO Lighting, Il Fanale, Secto Design, Gubi, Wästberg, Santa & Cole, Classicon, Zuiver, Barovier & Toso, Merci, Carpyen, Zonca, Oluce, Azucena, Object InsoliteBathrooms: Duravit, Zucchetti, Inda, Geberit, Scirocco H, Ceramica, Catalano, Kaledwei, Victoria + AlbertMaterials: Margraf, Made a Mano, Antica Ceramica Bartoli, Parador, Brintons, Tai Ping, Stepevi, Cigierre, Zahna Tiles, Ruckstuhl, Elitis, rosa, Gres, Sicis, Ceramica Vogue, Kasthall, 3M, Adielle, Grazi Cristalli, GibusFabrics: Rubelli, L'Opificio, TempotestFurniture: Riva, Busnelli, Colber, Very Wood, Designers Guild, De Linea, B&B, Mater, Gervasoni, Thonet, Knoll, Vitra, F.lli Levaggi, Andreu World, Simmons, Tom Dixon, Flexform, Azucena, Living Divani, Porro, Ligne Roset, Puntmobles, Meridiani, Arte Venezia
FACTS + FIGURES
AWARDS
SUPPLIERS
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International PR
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20121 Milano
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JW MARRIOTT VENICE RESORT & SPASACCA SESSOLA
VENEZIA
S.MARCO
RIALTO
SANTA LUCIASTATION
BIENNALE
LIDO DI VENEZIA
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CITY MAP
ROSE ISLAND - BEFORE THE RENOVATION WORKS
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MAIN LANDING STAGE
SPA AND TREATMENT BUILDING, FORMER STABLES
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"LA MAISONETTE" SUITES, VIEW FROM THE SECOND FLOOR OUTSIDE ON THE ANCIENT WALLS
"LA MAISONETTE" RENOVATED ACCORDING TO THE "BOX IN THE BOX" CONCEPT
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"LA RESIDENZA", RENOVATED ACCORDING TO THE "BOX IN THE BOX" CONCEPT
"LA RESIDENZA" VIEW FROM INSIDE ON THE PRIVATE GARDEN WITH POOL AND VENICE' LAGOON
