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Quattro Beach Spa Resort Hotel by Cüneyt Darı

Quattro Beach Spa Resort Hotel

Silver A' Design Award Winner 2025

Luminous white architectural screens dominate Cüneyt Darı's Quattro Beach Spa Resort Hotel lobby, their sinuous circular apertures creating a rhythmic visual melody that guides the eye through interconnected spatial zones while establishing an ethereal vertical presence reaching toward ornately decorated ceiling medallions painted in turquoise, gold, and coral hues reminiscent of Byzantine ecclesiastical traditions merged with contemporary hospitality aesthetics. The compositional architecture employs a sophisticated interplay between solid structural columns finished in pristine ivory and the delicate tracery of the decorative screens, establishing foreground, middle ground, and deep background recession through overlapping transparent planes that simultaneously reveal and partially obscure successive spatial layers. A carefully orchestrated seating arrangement featuring tufted Chesterfield-style sofas in cream and taupe leather anchors the foreground, their curved silhouettes and button-tufted surfaces creating tactile counterpoint to the geometric regularity of the architectural framework. The chromatic palette operates within a refined analogous harmony spanning warm ivory, champagne, soft gold, and touches of turquoise accent, with the polished marble flooring in deep verde antico providing grounding tonal contrast through its dramatically darker value range and complex natural veining patterns that mirror liquid reflections. Suspended brass lanterns in hexagonal forms cascade through the vertical space, their warm amber illumination contributing to an overall lighting schema that combines diffused ambient daylight filtering through the architectural screens with focused warm artificial sources creating pools of intimate luminosity. The spatial construction achieves remarkable depth through the strategic placement of the circular-motif screens that function as contemporary mashrabiya interpretations, their repetitive organic forms creating visual rhythm while permitting controlled transparency between functional zones including reception desk, lounge areas, and circulation corridors visible through successive architectural layers extending toward a multi-story atrium with visible balcony levels beyond.

At Ouattro Beach Spa Resort Hotel, we examined all the cities of France that bear traces of Romanesque influences. The details were inspired by the elegant facades of French streets and Roman arches. Inspired by the monasteries and Notre Dame cathedrals in France, we combined durability and dynamism in this project. The space is a masterpiece inspired by the smells of fresh bread and bakeries we encountered while traveling in France. It offers a unique and inviting atmosphere with its natural features and fine details.