Namhae Southcape Linear Suite Hotel

Namhae Southcape Linear Suite Hotel is part of a master plan for a small peninsula located south of Korea, including a new golf course, Club House and villas. Located in an area famous for its natural beauty, with mountains right up to the ocean's edge, the resort is built on tough land where the sea and sky meet. The jagged coastline and sloping hills harmonize brilliantly against the flat horizon. The 49-units hotel is intended to achieve harmony with the natural landscape, emphasized by the use of simple structures and rigid forms that protrude subtly from the dramatic hills and ridgelines of the island. Challenging the conventional hotel characteristics as a one large building mass, Southcape linear suite proposal splits the building into seven units while each uniquely adapting to the site by following the organic topographic line and slope. The resort occupies various slopes and ridge lines, which explore how existing nature and people can coexist in a meaningful relationship with each other. All buildings are composed of two stacked linear boxes, intentionally kept low in heights, disappearing into the site to allow for uninterrupted views southwards of the beautiful peninsula.