The landscape of is prevailed by different forms of water. In this environment originates Liepaja: on the riverside, between the sea and the lake.
Filling in the river Liva gave the opportunity to expand the city across a woodland, a bushy strip and a sandy beach, all the way to the sea. Paul Max Berchi inhabited this land with his bathhouse: he developed this harmonically evolved coordinate system between nature and man, the determined situation of water and the adjusted inhabitancy.
The Bath House stands on a podium, at the crossing of two paths, mirroring them. It consists of corridors and rooms. Visitors are getting different experiences roaming room to room, accidentally meeting with others, swimming in the corridor, even out to the grove.
Following the path towards the sea, to the very edge of the woodland, the bistro stands on a podium, framed by columns.
The hotel is set in a landscape which has no scale. The sea, the sandy and bushy strips are creating a constant picture. The view inwards the land is closed by the trees. Everything is horizontal. The rooms are placed among a line parallel to the coastline, each one stands on two columns, so they can stand still only together. Each room has it’s own stair, own setting of furnishing, own view to the sea.
Filling in the river Liva gave the opportunity to expand the city across a woodland, a bushy strip and a sandy beach, all the way to the sea. Paul Max Berchi inhabited this land with his bathhouse: he developed this harmonically evolved coordinate system between nature and man, the determined situation of water and the adjusted inhabitancy.
The Bath House stands on a podium, at the crossing of two paths, mirroring them. It consists of corridors and rooms. Visitors are getting different experiences roaming room to room, accidentally meeting with others, swimming in the corridor, even out to the grove.
Following the path towards the sea, to the very edge of the woodland, the bistro stands on a podium, framed by columns.
The hotel is set in a landscape which has no scale. The sea, the sandy and bushy strips are creating a constant picture. The view inwards the land is closed by the trees. Everything is horizontal. The rooms are placed among a line parallel to the coastline, each one stands on two columns, so they can stand still only together. Each room has it’s own stair, own setting of furnishing, own view to the sea.