Hotel Briig, Split

Bačvice is a historic quarter of Split, and the specificity of this location offers the possibility of setting high criteria when creating a new hotel. Strict regulations and rigid spatial rules though offer little opportunity beyond typical solutions.
Despite such strictly defined positions, the location of the hotel retained its green identity in the form of a ring garden. Highlighted contrast, uniqueness and total design are important features of this building. The spatial geometry of the facade is transferred to the interior by shaping the atrium as the hotel’s interior facade. Visual contact between users is realized through the openings of the atrium, and the view towards the sky is directed through a glass skylight. Sculptural stairs encourage the user to move towards open galleries, which are an alternative to typical and inhumane hotel corridors.
The Briig Hotel is an urban hotel that respects the bay of Bačvice as a beautiful natural context, but at the same time it becomes the part of the cultural map of the city. The wish was for the hotel to attract the citizens of Split in addition to its guests by providing them a contemporary setting that the city lacks.

What makes this project one-of-a-kind?
The Briig Hotel is an urban hotel that respects the bay of Bačvice as a beautiful natural context, but at the same time it becomes the part of the cultural map of the city. The contemporary appearance of the hotel outgrows frames of form and function, but reflects social values such as multiculturalism, tolerance, inclusivity and becomes ground for further mindful growth of such important mediterranean city which Split is.