QUINTA DA OMBRIA - Promontorio

QUINTA
DA OMBRIA
Tor, Loulé (Algarve), Portugal, 2009
HOTELS
Location Tor, Loulé (Algarve), Portugal
Developer Pontos Group Oy, Finland
Programme 200-bdr golf resort hotel
and 46 branded residences w/ function centre, clubhouse and Spa
Gross Floor Area 19,500 sq.m
Estimated Investment N/A
Project Status 2009 (concept design)
Golf course
Aerial view towards North
Aerial view towards South
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QUINTA DA OMBRIA
Tor, Loulé (Algarve), Portugal, 2009
Pools
Residences Lobby Restaurant Bedroom wings
Spa Pools and lake Road Conference centre
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QUINTA DA OMBRIA
Tor, Loulé (Algarve), Portugal, 2009
Study model
Owned by the Finish-based private equity
group, Pontos Oy, Quinta da Ombria is a
property in the Algarve hinterland (Tor/
Querença), with 153 hectares and a golf
resort master plan of approximately 1,700
beds, in the last stages of environmental
approval. Besides an 18-hole golf
course, Quinta da Ombria aims to start
this project by developing a nucleus of
hotel, spa, conference centre and branded
residences, in addition to a clubhouse and
a destination restaurant in an adjacent
plot. Ombria is a convenient location for
residential tourism, given its distance of
5 km from Loulé, Algarve’s third city.
The estate is amazing from a landscape
point of view, with a unique and complex
bio-diversity, a beautiful watercourse, and
a series of patrimonial elements related to
waterworks and farming.
The ascribed and stipulated plot on the
master plan for the hotel and residences is
on a NW-SE mountain ridge, which, given
the programme size, is quite challenging
insofar as both slopes, facing SW and NE
respectively, will have to be occupied.
The proposed design suggests the
volume of the building as a broken-down
parallelepiped that gently accommodates
to the topographic datum. Responding
to the orientation challenge, in order to
maximize views, sunlight exposure and
volume organicity, the position of the
rooms is slanted on a 45º angle, orienting
the views respectively towards East and
West.
The whole system is based on a “hotelhead”
which contains all services and
amenities (reception, lobby, restaurant,
bar, pools, conference areas, kitchen,
storage, etc) from where golf carts lead
the guests to the rooms or the residences,
leaving the cars parked outside the
landscaped perimeter. As guests arrive to
the hotel to check-in, valet parking takes
their cars outside the perimeter and offers
transportation in electric golf carts. Even
though walking is mostly encouraged, a
landscaped ring-road system exclusively
for these golf carts allows servicing and
guest cart-driving across the plot. The
branded residences are scattered around
this ringroad, while the hotel stands on
the ridge, in a series of 2-storey volumes
broken-down in four different parterres
gently imbedded in the mountain.
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