TRAMPOLINES.
Suite Hotel, Riccione, Italy.

Passing through Rimini and along its riviera, architecture often appears staged, masked, and calibrated for a continuous performance, suspended between leisure and spectacle. In this context, buildings rarely express their internal logic; instead, they operate through figures, surfaces, and constructed appearances.

Trampolines is the demolition and reconstruction of a historic restaurant venue, transformed into an eighteen-suite hotel. The project is based on a deliberate separation between two architectural problems: the internal spatial organization and the definition of the building’s exterior presence. While the distributive layout follows a conventional and efficient logic, the architectural project concentrates on the facade as an independent field of action.

The facade operates as an architectural device, detached from the internal structure and capable of defining the building as a recognizable figure. This displacement allows the exterior to assume an active role, no longer bound to represent internal functions but instead constructing an autonomous architectural identity.

This strategy is made operative through material innovation. An architectural shell of over one thousand square meters, entirely realized in DuPont Corian, envelops the building. The material enables the facade to be both formally continuous and technically precise, transforming it into an active architectural system rather than a mere surface.

Displace designates the separation of architectural problems: internal distribution and external form are treated as independent layers.

Activate refers to the facade as an operative architectural device, enabling the project through material and constructional innovation.