tivoli marina vilamoura apartments

TIVOLI MARINA
VILAMOURA
APARTMENTS
Marina de Vilamoura (Algarve), Portugal, 2011
HOTELS
Location Marina de Vilamoura (Algarve), Portugal
Operator Tivoli Hotels & Resorts
Property Espirito Santo Group
Programme Hotel expansion with 60 serviced apartments
Gross Built Area 6,000 sq.m (plus parking)
Estimated Investment N/A
Project Status 2011 (feasibility studies)
View towards North
Site plan
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View towards South
TIVOLI MARINA VILAMOURA APARTMENTS
Marina de Vilamoura (Algarve), Portugal, 2011
Facade
1st floor plan
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TIVOLI MARINA VILAMOURA APARTMENTS
Marina de Vilamoura (Algarve), Portugal, 2011
Facade details
Living room
In the context of the Algarve, Vilamoura
is more of an area than a town in itself
and has grown over the past couple of
decades to engulf the nearby city of
Quarteira towards east. Located virtually
in the middle of the Algarve coast, within
15 Km of the Faro airport, Vilamoura’s
accessibility has helped it become one
of Europe’s largest beach resorts. The
20 square kilometres of this purposebuilt resort are home to practically every
form of sport, entertainment and amenity
imaginable, including 6 world-class golf
courses.
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Balconies
The heart of this macro-resort is the highly
successful Vilamoura Marina, built with
1,200 berths in the early 1970s to service
a wide spectrum of vessels, raging from
small speedboats through to 40+ metre
yachts, and one of the most vibrant places
in the whole region. On the east side of
this bustling harbour, the 380-bedroom
Tivoli Marina, is a traditional 5-star hotel
and conference centre that anchors the
place with all the required leisure facilities
and capacity.
Given the intense dynamics of the place,
the client saw the opportunity and demand
for an upper-scale expansion of 60 serviced
apartment units that could raise the profile
of the whole ensemble, while increasing
capacity and diversifying the typological
offer. Raised on a deck-parking plinth, the
design is conceived as an aloft structure
sliced by a series of fleeting slabs of
variegated heights that generate a system
of mezzanines and suspended gardens.
Despite its relatively small footprint and
floor area, the building aims to embody an
optimistic vision on the prospects of this
tourism hub.