Photo © Jens Kirchner
Drawing © CROSS Architecture
Photo © Jens Kirchner
Photo © Jens Kirchner
Photo © Jens Kirchner
Dynamische Wahrnehmung der Fassade
Drawing © CROSS Architecture
Drawing © CROSS Architecture

Hotel Tivoli

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Location
Krefelder Straße, Aachen, Germany
Year
2017
Client
DaixKo Hotelbaugesellschaft mbH & Co.KG
Competition
2011, 1st prize
Architect
CROSS Architecture / Benthem Crouwel GmbH
Project team
M. Sporer, C. Wens, J. Görling, S. Vijgen, F. Elsh
Building services
DSTR Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Structural engineering
B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Building physics
B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Fire protection
B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Landscape architect
Greenbox Landscape Architects PartG
Gross floor area
9,800 m²

Since 2010, on the former “Tivoli” area alongside the Krefelder Straße, a new and attractive residential area is in the making, spiked with high profile office and commercial spaces. The new development of a 3-star Hilton group hotel – halfway between the motorway and the historical city center – marks with its cubing´s conscious superelevation and its extraordinary façade not only the new city quarter but also the important city entry situation at the foot of the “Lousberg”.

The façade as accent – The hotel encloses the square shaped property on three sides. The 164 guest rooms and additional spaces are combined by design into a compact, partly pending structure above a generous driveway and seamlessly connected open hotel lobby.

The hotel´s outstanding and memorable constitutive criteria is the custom made curtain wall made of three-dimensionally shaped aluminum sheets. They are vertically arranged – breaking through the punched window façade´s stringent rhythm and creating a subtle dynamic through their varying dimensions. With its spatial deepness and powerful crimson colour, the hotel´s façade sets a distinctive creative mark with a striking long range effect at one of the city´s most important radial roads.

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