Casa de La Flora, Refined and Refreshed

Located straight on the turquoise waters of the Andean Sea in southern Thailand, Casa de La Flora boasts an iconic brutalist design that’s now abloom with inexperienced roofs and refreshed interiors. Having totally reopened on March 1, following a virtually year-long overhaul, the resort welcomes visitors into refurbished lodging, a radically reworked duplex villa, and reorganized public areas, together with a health heart, foyer, and beachside restaurant—all overseen by the ultramodern studio Vaslab Structure.

Casa de La Flora made waves when it opened in Phang Nga, Thailand, in 2011 for its harmonious mix of smooth brutalism with natural shapes designed inside and outside by the famend Bangkok-based studio Vaslab Structure. This month, the resort celebrates its reopening following a virtually one-year-long renovation, additionally carried out by Vaslab. The revived interiors keep the unique imaginative and prescient whereas concurrently infusing lodging and public areas with a refreshed up to date feeling via minimalistic new furnishings and the reconceptualization of spatial layouts. In and out, geometric traces meet pure shapes and landscaped roofs to kind a putting, harmonious entire.

With a design language rooted within the metaphorical type of blooming flowers, Casa de La Flora’s 34 cubical buildings steadily emerge from the bottom and are topped with vivid topiaries conceived by panorama designers T.R.O.P. In the course of the renovation, eight villas have been transformed into duplex two-bedroom villas, very best for teams of pals or households. In every of those villas, the higher flooring now unfolds as a main bed room with an en suite toilet and personal balcony with solar loungers, whereas the bottom stage contains a cozy dwelling space, small pantry, and twin bed room with a bathe. All through all villas, together with 10 straight on the seashore, Vaslab optimized the spatial layouts with recent customized furnishings and toilet designs.

Different standout adjustments made throughout the renovation are the redesign of the foyer, refinement of the onsite La Aranya restaurant, and relocation of the health heart. With a repositioned angular check-in desk, the foyer is a contemporary open-air oasis crafted from wooden and concrete with an abundance of greenery. Inside, the air high quality programs have been additionally improved to higher flow into filtered recent air. On the seafront restaurant La Aranya, a reconceived floorplan permits for added seating and an expanded open kitchen, the place visitors can now watch as cooks put together worldwide dishes with Thai twists. And whereas the health heart was previously underground, visitors can now exercise whereas having fun with expansive views of the picturesque gardens. With such a holistic and immersive redesign, at Casa de La Flora, brutalism is blooming anew.

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