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plan-full-ground-floor and plan-intervention-detail now come from the actual Vectorworks plan PDFs (GRUNDRISS-100.pdf, 1_20.pdf) rather than the typst-export renders — crisper linework, smaller files despite higher resolution. added plan-intervention-near.webp (from 100-NAH.pdf) as a third, medium-detail view between the full floor plan and the 1:20 intervention detail.
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title: "hotel national"
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slug: "hotel-national"
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date: 2026-04-01
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thumbnail: "/img/hotel-national/entrance-model.webp"
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schools: ["hslu"]
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degrees: ["ma"]
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images:
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/entrance-model.webp", name: "entrance-model.webp" }
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/staircase-model.webp", name: "staircase-model.webp" }
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/reading-room-model.webp", name: "reading-room-model.webp" }
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/plan-full-ground-floor.webp", name: "plan-full-ground-floor.webp" }
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/plan-intervention-near.webp", name: "plan-intervention-near.webp" }
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- { src: "/img/hotel-national/plan-intervention-detail.webp", name: "plan-intervention-detail.webp" }
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in collaboration with tamara grabovska, merging the hotel national with the lotte library is based on a deliberately set contradiction. a grand hotel with classical representational architecture meets a left-autonomous library. rather than levelling this opposition, it is staged spatially — as a productive coexistence of two attitudes within the same building.
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the intervention concentrates on one corner of the historic, pilaster-articulated volume. freeing a column creates a precisely placed void. two walls are removed, and the raised ground floor is lowered to grade in the area of the incision. this forms a covered outdoor space — carried by a single column — that functions simultaneously as threshold, passage, and address.
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the library thereby gains an independent entrance and can operate autonomously within the hotel, without being subordinated to it. the intervention is minimal but effective: a spatial opening rather than a built addition. interior and exterior stand in direct relation without giving up their independence.
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the project understands itself as a gentle occupation: not a radical conversion, but a precise displacement of existing structures. through minimal interventions, a place emerges that does not conceal difference but makes it visible.
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