KUUM Hotel Spa&Residences

NUTSHELL

Wholeness Through Difference

Type
  
Hospitality, Leisure, Spa/Hammam/Wellness, Residential, Hotel
  
Location
  
Türkiye
  
Construction Area
  
9600 sqm.
  
Project Site Area
  
20000 sqm.
  
Year
  
2009
  
Status
  
Built
  
Architectural Project & Design
  
Gokhan Avcioglu&GAD
  
Team
  
Esin Ayar, Ozan Ertug, Baris Ucar, Ayhan Urguplu, Arzu Meyvaci, Serkan Cedetas, George Schreiner, Laura Fink
  
Awards

2012 World Luxury Spa Awards, Best Luxury Destination Spa

2011 International Hotel Awards, Best Hotel Architecture

APPROACH

The KUUM Hotel Spa & Residences is an innovative concept for boutique lifestyle and resorts.

The architecture for KUUM was inspired by the regional beauty, resources and historical legacy of southwestern Turkey and the Aegean Sea. Specifically, the Kuum Property is located in Bodrum, an international destination renowned for its wonderful climate, turquoise waters and cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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GAD Documentary Films

A short documentary film on the architecture of the Kuum Hotel in Göltürkbükü, Bodrum, Turkey by GAD Architecture led by Gokhan Avcioglu presented by architecture critic Gokhan Karakus. The film looks at the architecture of this hotel and resort located in the Bodrum Peninsula on the Aegean Sea coastline of Turkey.  The architecture critic Gokhan Karakus takes viewers on a tour of the architecture of this hotel that creates a new natural and formal language in a contemporary approach to living on the Turkish Aegean including an interview with the client and previous owner Irfan Kuris. Karakus critically notes the architectural strategy of site optimisation based on “genius loci” the experience of the landscape and sea where each room has unique views while being embedded into the topography. The Kuum Hotel is an organic design that subtly creates an experience of nature that the film's photography emphasizes. The design, atmospheric and ecological features of the Turkish Aegean coast that is the subject of this documentary film series on GAD architectural projects in Bodrum are further detailed in the organic architecture of the Kuum Hotel by GAD.

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