Sports Hotel in Savongnin

“Cube” is a new hotel concept with reasonable prices and an emphasis on sports and entertainment aimed at young guests between the ages of 18 and 30. At the end of 2005, the second hotel of this type was opened: the Cube in Savognin in the Grisons. It is situated right next to the valley station of the mountain railway. The four-storey glazed volume contains 76 minimally designed rooms laid out around an atrium, as well as generous communal areas that occupy almost the entire ground floor and basement. On the entrance level, grouped around a central lounge that extends over the full height of the building, are restaurant areas, a bar and a room with an open fireplace. In the basement are a sauna, a steam bath, fitness rooms and a disco club. The access areas have also been enlarged to create communication zones and spaces where people can meet. Laid out around the atrium are catwalk-like ramps that lead to the upper levels. Since the rooms themselves are finished in a functionally simple form – as doubles, or as sleeping spaces for four people with bunk beds – the broad, gallery-like corridors with group seating facilities provide areas where guests can relax. All rooms have their own shower and WC; and leading on to the hall, each has a glazed “showroom” that forms a lockable storage space for snowboards, bi­cycles, clothing and shoes. The economical structure consists of a reinforced concrete skeleton frame with built-in modular elements. The deliberately simple nature of the internal spaces, with exposed concrete surfaces, epoxy-resin floors and visible service ducts, together with the coloured glass panels to the balustrades, columns and corridor walls, creates an urbane loft atmosphere. The curtain-wall facade, consisting of satin-finished glass, serves as a sunscreen and a means of visual protection to the inner glazing of the actual thermal skin. There is also a second, smaller volume, where sports equipment can be hired, a service that is included – like the mountain-railway ticket – in the overall charges of the Cube.