Summer Resort Hotel

A narrow plot along the railway set a linear plan: the hotel runs in one line parallel to the tracks. The long, low building is broken up by a rhythm of white cubic volumes of different heights, with two-level blocks of rooms and terraces in between. The long elevation never reads as a barracks, and every room gets its own way outside — onto a terrace, a balcony or the roof.

The white volumes, with tall black-framed windows, carry the words SUN, SEA, SUMMER, RESORT, HOTEL, PARADISE, so the facade works as its own signboard and sticks in the memory. Ground-floor rooms open onto planted timber terraces; upper rooms onto glass-railed balconies and roof decks with loungers and parasols. The plinth is clad in dark stone, and in the evening warm lighting picks out the timber inserts.

Zatoka lives on a short, intense season, so the design relies on a simple structural scheme and fast construction: the hotel has to start earning in its first summer. A room with its own terrace justifies a higher rate, and the graphic lettered facade does its own marketing in guests' social feeds. TVORZI developed the concept and the architectural design.