A monolithic facade that opens toward the water.
The lobby is the point of arrival and meeting place of the internationally branded hotel. A monolithic volume of exposed concrete, its hanging gardens spilling over the portico, lets the gaze pass straight through it to the water landscape beyond.
Tropical brutalism as a calling card.
Here the hotel introduces itself with three materials and no decoration: exposed concrete, chukum and pale wood. The facade is emphatic, almost mineral, yet the jungle is already reclaiming it from above with gardens that fall over the entrance. Inside, a corridor of concrete arches guides the eye — and your steps — toward the water on the far side of the building. It is where guests, owners and visitors cross paths, and where the network of created rivers that runs through the entire hotel begins. The first impression is of weight; the second, of calm.
The corridor
Concrete arches framing the water
The lobby corridor is a sequence of exposed-concrete arches bathed in warm, indirect light. Each arch frames the next, and at the end, always, the water landscape: the view passes through the building from one side to the other. No wall closes the axis; the building exists to direct the gaze. Walking it is the hotel's first experience, before any service.
- Concrete arches
- Warm indirect light
- Axis toward the water
The table
Signature cuisine facing the water
The lobby opens onto the table: a signature restaurant with a terrace facing the water, set among palms in the warm light of late afternoon. It is the hotel's table of arrival: the place where the first meal and the last drink share the same horizon. For those who live at The Reserve there is a permanent privilege: owners and their guests receive 30% off at the hotel and across all of its services, this table included.
- Signature restaurant
- Terrace facing the water
- 30% for owners
The gateway to the hotel
Where the created rivers begin
The lobby is not a vestibule: it is the gateway to a hotel immersed in created rivers. From here, the network of water unfolds toward the suites, the courtyards and the terraces, and the building marks the point where the dry path ends and the water landscape begins. Arrive, check in, and step out the other side with the current already near. Everything that follows is traversed among reflections.
- Network of created rivers
- Meeting point
- Internationally branded
The material
Concrete, chukum, wood and jungle
The lobby's palette is that of the entire hotel: exposed concrete for structure, chukum for warmth, pale wood for touch. Over that mineral base, the vegetation does its part: hanging gardens descend from the monolithic facade and soften the entrance portico. Tropical brutalism lives on that contrast between what is built and what grows over it. With the years, the jungle will have more and more to say.
- Exposed concrete
- Chukum
- Pale wood
- Hanging gardens
Walk the lobby through to the water
We arrange private visits to the site: see where the hotel sits within the master plan and understand how the lobby articulates the arrival, the table and the network of created rivers. The axis of arches toward the water is something you have to walk.