The urge to travel assails our spirits from time to time. Sometimes it appears as a pressing need, sometimes as a distant dream. Today the future ways of being a traveler are among the most debated issues in economic forums,
tourism industry
zooms
,
expert
webinars
and
futuribles analyst
teams
. The persistent tracking of vibrant experiences, always different, is the common slogan and the most recurrent conclusion that they contribute. Beyond
digital trips
or
through books
, these forums speak of security corridors and a new exclusivity in which the masses of tourists are mainly excluded.
Where were the compass killers? "By then I had realized that searching was my sign, an emblem of those who go out at night without a fixed purpose, the reason for the killers of compass."
Julio Cortázar's
phrase
has taken on a renewed value, eager travelers are encouraged to build new roads and not follow predictable guides. Some of the proposals that respond to the most advanced concerns about traveling are being given by designers and architects through projects that allude to the essential and existential questions that concern us today:
protection, shelter, the cabin.
.
High-rise viewpoints, watchtowers from which to observe horizons, caverns to meditate and reflect.
This is how these new spaces are, havens of peace in nature, between the protection of forests and mountains, caves without natural light, nests mirrored in the tops of tall trees.
This is a brief portrait of the places that capture our imagination, a reflection of our desire to fly and, at the same time, to continue sheltering ourselves from the pandemic inclemencies.
Double 'Suite' at the Vivood hotel, in Benimantell (Alicante).
AMANDA GLEZ.
The landscape, protagonist
Like birds we see our possibilities to take flight, to travel.
The Treehotel in Sweden,
located in
Harads
, facing the Arctic forest, is one of the most
Instagrammed
hotels
with waiting lists since its opening. Its rooms are in cabins suspended in trees, each with a name that corresponds to its form and function: The Mirrorcube, Bird's Nest, The Blue Cone, The Cabin, The Ufo, The 7th Room and Dragonfly. They have been designed by different architecture studios and interior designers such as Snøhetta, Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, Cyrén & Cyrén, Sandell Sandberg or Bertil Harström, and are managed by
Brittas Pensionat
, a local hotel.
The most desired are Bird's Nest (the nest) and the two-room complex The 7th Room, whose facades are covered by mirrors and which seduces with the reflections caused by the powerful surrounding nature.
In Spain,
Vivood
complies with all the maxims of sustainable connection with nature, camouflaged in the forest of
the Guadalest valley
, in
Alicante
.
The design is by the architects and landscapers
Daniel Mayo
,
Agustín Marí
and
Pablo Vázquez,
who also manage it.
The hotel is invisible.
Its wide glass facades show nature in all its splendor from within;
from outside, it expands and reproduces it through reflections of light.
This trip to the new shelters for explorers could be wrapped in the fashion collection of the architect
Raquel Buj
called
Nidos
, a formula of sustainable and enveloping materials.
Or enter the dream shelters of the
nest furniture
for the home of designer Nacho Carbonell.
One of the cave rooms of XUQ, accommodation located in the Albacete town of Jorquera.
Shelters in the rock
Inside the earth, shelters that shelter and embrace us, a return to the original cave.
On the mythical slopes of
Mount Ziria or Cilene,
in the Greek peninsula of the
Peloponnese
, a new
resort
has risen
,
Hyades Mountain
.
This has reproduced a cave-refuge designed by
Tenon Architecture
.
Completed in 2020, its main space follows the rocky lines of a cavern, but finished in wood.
The warmth of the cavity has been achieved with sinuous sculptural forms handcrafted.
Facilities of the 'resort' Hyades Mountain (Greece).
TENON ARQUITECTURE
In Spain,
the XUQ hotel
, in the province of
Albacete
, is growing year after year.
Víctor Pinedo
and
Fernando Monteagudo
started this rural accommodation in the
cave houses of Jorquera
four years ago. The success has made them expand the facilities, always with the determination to contain in their spaces design pieces, cavernous contemporary environments that include small pools and water for relaxation, not only that of the flow of the Júcar river. The cave rooms are bioclimatic and sustainable; Without using energy, they maintain a constant temperature of 20 degrees, both in winter and in summer.
Every year new routes are opened for hikers along the river and in the nearby
villages of Cubas
,
Maldonado or Alcozarejos
, also dug into the mountains.
A perfect complement for those who dare to discover the essence and the way of living in remote times.
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