The project consists in a tourist accommodation located in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, specifically in a pinewood in the Puerto de la Morcuera.

A huge travertine marble surface appears ahead of the host, which introduces itself among the pines, as if it was hugging them. Its colors, given by its noble materials, will emphasize the environment where it resides.
This platform deck offers a whole new horizon. It elevates itself from the unleveled ground as if it was floating, resting on the strictly necessary supports. This surface’s role is to be the roots, the pedestal which will introduce to a vertical structure which contains the three accommodations.
This white steel structure will be the first decision made; it becomes independent of the enclosure material. It starts being and isolated tower, using Mies van Der Rohe’s ideas as the reference, but trying to adapt itself to the environment and looking for a more significant expression of balance, new forms begin to appear.

Breaks are made: the second accommodation moves towards the west, which makes necessary the search for an structure able to take on this, creating a plexus, a kind of tissue surrounding the enclosure.
Forces are transferred, ramifications appear but then come together again, allowing the freedom of the stays’ corners. This, extends the space towards the exterior, it becomes a space whose end isn’t known.

The accommodations fill their centre, leaving a freed perimeter. The volume which contains the stairs will differentiate the uses inside. Even though all three stays have the same internal organization, each of them offers a whole new way of experiencing nature’s beauty. They are located in three different heights: among the tree mass, straight over it, being the end of the pines the new horizon line, and 36 meters above the marble surface: reaching the sky.

When it comes to uses, the first floor of each accommodation will be destined to rest. As it requires less light, north and south facades are made of opaque pine wood. This way, the host’s view is lead to the west, enclosured by translucent glass. As a consequence of this, the exterior is not perceived in a literal way, but it is by the diffuse colors coming from nature: reflection from the clouds, green tones from the vegetation… In essence, light and color patches that allow a privileged way of admiring the Sierra de Madrid.

The second floor of each stay, on the other hand, will be for activity. Its glass enclosure gives the accommodation a greater entrance of light, which added to the structure located in the middle of the facade, allows this mentioned connection between interior and exterior. One is outdoors, being indoors.

In short, an architecture made to dive into, uplift and emphasize the beautiful environment in which it’s located.