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The design strategy is to create a dialogue between the hotel and Barcelona, and making a close connection with the neighbourhood near the property. Ciutat Vella, meaning Old City, is an area a slow pace of life; an artsy neighbourhood, small pedestrian streets and museums, street art, small shops, traditional bars and cafes and improvised skate parks.
The design uses handcrafted elements, local brands and art, colourful ceramic patterns, together with reinterpreted references to its historical past, mixed with a contemporary spontaneous design approach.
One of the challenges was organizing the public programme, as the street level was especially small. The strategy was using this street level exclusively for the bar. Cafe Got acts as a connection between the city and the hotel: an active space with a long façade facing the street, inviting guests and locals to enter and interact.
The lobby area is located on a mezzanine level. A double-height space connects it with the bar while bringing a watery effect to the space through a cascade of glass lamps. Three stones perform as reception desks, referencing the stone fountains in the Gothic patios. The lobby space is completed with a lounge area and a co-working table.
The warm wooden flooring and surfaces serve as a perfect counterpoint for the colder stony elegant surfaces of the water area, while black orthogonal metal structures frame round mirrors and lamps.
In the suite rooms, we bring a similar colour, temperature and material strategy based on playing with contrasts and opposites. But in this case with upgraded comfort features, as a stylish living room area or the extraordinary experience of a bathtub facing the private balcony and the views of the city from the highest floor of the building.
Kimpton Vividora Hotel has a food and beverage open to the public. Cafe Got’s double-height space connects with the lobby area in the first level, bringing a fresh and watery effect to the project, with a cascade of glass lamps. Below this space, a comfortable lounge sitting area, close to the façade and visible from the street, invites guests and locals to enter and relax.
The Fauna Restaurant welcomes customers with a vivid and changing-patterned tile floor, as a reference to one of the most characteristic elements of the traditional Barcelona house: the colourful tiled flooring patterns, different in each room of the house. Hand-painted bluish ceramic tiles representing scenes of the Old Barcelona city welcome guests at the entrance area where the breakfast-buffet bar is located.