TANGIBLE PALIMPSEST
READY PASSED
In ORIS 102, 2017.
Six years now, the creepers have started to dissolve the courtyards as red wine does with words.
Atrio is one of those formidable places where architecture happens to be confused with life. It is one of those times when the tangible and the frame it inhabits pass undistinguished. When that happens, we are before design at its finest, a construct of the senses as aware of place as they are of time.
Excerpt from the article. Atrio, Relais-Chateaux, Restaurant and Hotel, an award winning, 2 Michelin Star establishment, designed by Mansilla + Tuñón Architects. Inaugurated in November of 2010 in Cáceres, Spain. FAD Architecture Award in 2011.
"...Impeccable tablecloths that brush the ground
crying domesticity, dissolving into the matte continuum of black Zimbabwe granite, never interrupted, from
reception to bath.
The moving afternoon sunlight projected against
the five open pore coats of white oak
paneling, vibrating with alternation in their different dimensions.
A shared, and selective privacy, tempered by
the lattice of slender, exposed white concrete pillars of the courtyard, oblique screens yet frontally
transparent; disappearing even, revealing a room.
The extraordinary silence of the private
spaces, only possible by the clockwork of expert layering, generous materials,
and the culture of a meticulous staff.
Weighed vistas, deep eyes that can be
inhabited, lined in natural oak, low and warm, thresholds between introspection
and external stimuli.
The diverse pulsations of the walls: Saura,
Scully, Baselitz, Warhol, Rueda, Ruff…"
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