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AT-015 — Hospitality

Hotel Lanterna

A rough stone wall with a single deep-set window beneath olive branches.
Depth of the deepest room into rock: 26.00 metres

Depth of the deepest room into rock

Location
Basilicata, Italy
Grid ref.
40°40′N 16°36′E
Programme
Twenty-four rooms in a restored cave settlement
Year
2016–2022
Status
Completed
Area
3,150 m²
Levels
5, stepped into the ravine
Structure
Existing calcarenite; new work in concrete poured against stone

The rooms were once dwellings dug into the soft stone of the ravine, abandoned in the last century. We kept every surface that could be kept. New work is limited to what the rock could not do: concrete stairs, thresholds and terraces, poured directly against the stone so the two materials meet without a joint.

S-01

Adding as little as possible

Each room received three new things: a floor, a bathroom, and a lantern. Everything else was cleaned, consolidated and left. The hotel's character is the ravine's, not ours.

A narrow stone stair lit warm at the top of a dark stairwell.
A narrow stone stair lit warm at the top of a dark stairwell.

S-02

The lanterns

At night, each room's entrance is lit by a single deep-set lamp. From across the ravine, the hotel reads as a line of small warm lights in the rock face, the way the settlement looked when it was inhabited.

A shadowed arcade of heavy piers, a pool of sunlight on the floor.
A shadowed arcade of heavy piers, a pool of sunlight on the floor.
A board-marked concrete stair curving beneath a deep overhanging roof.
A board-marked concrete stair curving beneath a deep overhanging roof.

Schedule

Materials

  • M-01

    Calcarenite

    Existing rock faces, cleaned and consolidated with lime

  • M-02

    Concrete

    Poured against the rock, aggregate matched to the local stone

  • M-03

    Blackened steel

    Lanterns, handrails and door frames