Hotel rural en el Municipio de San Gil

Abstract

Located in a rural area of the tourist capital of the department of Santander, in the Egidos y Pericos village, north of the urban area of the municipality of San Gil, the Hotel Rural Chinátoca was born in response to the high demand for natural tourism and the new architectural trends of tourist accommodation establishments nationwide. The project is consolidated as a tourist complex that is integrated with the environment, surrounded by endemic vegetation, a warm climate with strong air currents, a sinuous topography, and a great natural and landscape attraction, which results in a unique visual, where the sky meets the eastern mountain range. In this way, nature becomes the main design element, creating three volumes destined to fulfill the functions: social, operational and residential, distributed on the property and adapted to the topographic relief. All of them separated from each other and connected by means of a circulation axis that emulates a gallery forest, allowing an inclusive, pleasant and pleasant movement through the different spaces of the project. Once the functional and spatial objective of the project has been conceptualized, a volumetry is proposed that reinterprets elements typical of the architecture of the region. Resulting in sloping asymmetric roofs, exposed structural elements, internal patios that integrate nature with architecture, vertical wooden elements and large openings in the façade for the landscape use of the environment. Finally, the materiality is defined by components that are integrated with the natural conditions of the project, ocher concrete finish for the structural elements and masonry, Barichara-type slab finish for the floors and circulations, cumaru wood for elements on the façade and roofs, ‘caña brava’ for the elaboration of the flat ceiling and ornamental low vegetation that surrounds each of the hotel's internal spaces, generating a relationship between architecture, landscape, and nature.