Abstract
The site is partly the cliff face and ledge overlooking the Adriatic Sea. The hotel includes a 200 seating theatre complex. The natural light falling onto the rock completely transforms the coastline, not only animating a solid fort like facade it makes it feel lighter and less dense. The beauty of this coastline lies in it's diverse sections and land levels, continuously changing views nothing is still or suspended, movement shortens the attention span experiencing the site as a series of fragmented frames never quite being able to see the entire picture as any one time. To focus on just one physical aspect would be to deny the inherent beauty of it's coastline. This project is my dwelling1, it evolves from the site, clings to the cliff face, cantilevers off the ledge for vertiginous views. The coastline is treacherous as well as sedate, it reveals itself slowly as it's scale dwarves/belittles any possible architectural intervention. It is to be tamed or embraced, the hotel's architecture attempts to capture both in it's experience. The dichroic2 glass theatre defines a series of floating spaces, the glass acts as a filter focusing on parts of the surrounding landscape.