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Šolta Island will be home to Europe's first rotating hotel
A rotating hotel is to form the centrepiece of a new resort near Split in Croatia. Designed by Richard Hywel Evans of Studio RHE, specialists in holiday resort design, the concept was proposed from a desire to provide sea views from each room.
While most of the fine details of the hotel remain under wraps WAN can reveal "the 3 storey building is a 61 metre diameter very slow moving continuous turntable rotating 1.3 times per day, and will be built of steel in sections at the huge Split shipyards which are directly opposite the Island," says Evans.
"The building is entered from below at Lower Ground Level which does not rotate with the 22 metre diameter centre hub of the building which is also static containing the Reception, circulation stairs and lifts," he adds.
The full development is comprised a new build marina and resort which will include the hotel, guest pavilions and villas.
The new 170 berth marina will be accompanied by a performance stage, yacht club and marine village along the water's edge.
The development is to be built on Šolta Island on a hillside olive grove allowing views across the bay, 35 minutes boat ride from Split. The project spreads across the water with villas facing the marina from across the water.
Guest Pavilions made from the surrounding grove slate walls
create private spaces for guests with glass fronted pavilions and swimming
pools roofed with reflective aluminium wings.
Four Bedroom Residences are interconnected and created from the perimeter ‘stone contour’
walls in the olive tree fields with trees rising from the swimming pools
encased in glazed tubes.
The centrepiece hotel itself is set in an infinity edged swimming lake which spills over into a hillside spa below. The views worthy of a rotating hotel spread across the Adriatic Sea and over to the Roman remains of a Diocletian fish farm and dramatic countryside.
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