The lobby of the hotel in Karelia

The hotel is located in the Karelian landscape, where stone, water and forest form an integral natural environment. Architecture grows out of the context of a place — rocks, seids, petroglyphs and traces of human presence preserved in stone. The building is perceived as part of the relief, repeating the color and structure of the rock. The composition is based on the image of a monolithic rock divided into two parts. There is a central public space in the rift — the lobby, the functional and emotional core of the hotel. It is a meeting place and a place of life, protected but open to the landscape. The main material is monolithic concrete as an analogue of stone. Interiors are read as volumes carved into the mass, where light and shadow play a key role.