In Skiathos, a summer destination island, the modernist hotel’s building volumes were renovated and redesigned. The design maintains the stylistic clarity of the interior, emphasising its flowing connection to the surrounding area via large openings throughout the lobby, restaurant and bar. Additionally, individual architectural and stylistic manipulations of materials and structures create complexity indoors.
The redesign highlights each room’s purity of form, brightness and extroversion, so as to efficiently connect the space with the environment. This sense is further strengthened by the selection of materials and stylistic interventions.
An open plan layout is chosen for the bathrooms, with large glass surfaces on partition walls. Wardrobes and bathroom benches are designed and constructed with thin metal frames, reducing the sense of solidity and allowing natural light throughout the interior.
In the same logic, desks are embedded in the walls, avoiding the use of legs and supporting surfaces that would interrupt the space’s visual coherence. Chromatically, a “two-tone approach” is selected, comprising the illuminating and minimalist colour white and a light grey zone. Details in black, carefully chosen on the extent and location, emphasise the contrasts. A particularly noticeable role plays the area of ​​coloured floor tiles with geometric patterns in the wet spaces. Emphasis is given to maintaining natural hues in furniture and fabrics, with shades derived from the colour palette of the Sporades Islands.

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