Located at the edge of a forest while overlooking vineyards to the east and south, this 100-room destination hotel, spa and wine center in Alsace offers views of Switzerland and Germany in the distance.
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The red cliff from the former stone quarry on the site provides a unique background for the building, while an ancient road, crosseing the site from the historical Marbach Abbey, was once part of the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostela.
The concept of Arborescent Structures - a morphology of tree-like branching - lends a unique order and space to this building as it gently merges with the landscape‘s slope. The concrete frame structure is clad in blackened wood siding which blends with the dark greens of the forest and landscape.
Like a flower branching from a tree, the event center pavilion is covered in red weathered steel, similar to the local stone cliff, with colored glass in different shades of red. This pavilion contains a restaurant, an event space and a wine gallery with its own skybar. The flower-like pavilion can also be a place of silence and reflection, connecting to the site history with the adjacent monastery and abbey.