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*** Europe hotel located in Grande-Motte on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Hotel's history
Hotel located in Grande-Motte, Hérault
Europe hotel
Europe hotel's aesthetics
Europe hotel's aesthetics, located in front of the souvenir garden is magnified by his mouldings as an unifier element.
The hotel has been builded in 1973 by Maxime Serrado, an architect from the Hérault.
On the main frontage, a skilled game on the mouldings ensures different floor height. Jean Balladur, architect in chief in charge with the construction of the city La Grande-Motte, calls it the "pierced mouldings".
The shapes open up a perfect cercle on the transitional floor and a semi-circle open up on the top of the last floor. It simply is a concrete shapes game casted stapled on the frontage. On the ground floor, the mouldings form a semi-circle open up on the bottom. Made up of keys system which remind of a nice walk under the arcade's shade.
Europe hotel
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Europe hotel has been builded in 1973 by the architect Maxime Serrado. He was born in the Hérault and has been graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts from Strasbourg.
Back from Montpellier, he open his agency in 1972. The hotel Grand-Mottois must be one of his first realization.
Made up of forty rooms whose two suites, the building fronts the South-West / North-East axis.
It is the Grande-Motte's public entrance system typical direction, dictate by the pontoons and quays direction.
Despite the perfectly flat land, the hotel feature is to be made up of three buildings whose the floors are not on the same level.
The first building, East side, is made up of three floors and is only made up of rooms.
The ground floor feature is that a part of it is underground.
The two others buildings are only made up of two floors, South facing. They are slightly lower and stand on a raising land. The land allows the digging of a pool. The undergrounds are filled with water in this area.
The ground floors are reserved to the shared spaces as they circled the pool - noisy area - . Reception is located in the main building and restaurant is located in the West side building.
On the North side, the back frontages of the West buildings are made up of three floors whose a semi-cellar underground used by the staff and maintenance.
On the main frontage, a skilled game on the mouldings ensures different floor height. Jean Balladur, architect in chief in charge with the construction of the city La Grande-Motte, calls it the "pierced mouldings".
It simply is a concrete game casted stapled on the frontage.
The first floor of the main building is made up of the second floor of the East building which is the grating shaped by the mouldings. The floors of the latter are in line with the last building, this one can do without mouldings in order to illuminate the restaurant and without the cohesion being affected. The attic in the second floor is made up of a suite. Potential for a terrace. The mouldings shapes perfectly open up on the transitional floor, a semi-circle open up to the top on the last floor.
On the ground floor, the mouldings form a semi-circle open up on the bottom. Made up of keys system which remind of a nice walk under the arcade's shade. On the top floors, the mouldings enclosed the loggias in order to avoid gazes from the pool and to assure privacy.
The difference between the floors are nicely hiden on the South frontage by the typical Grande-Motte aesthetics mouldings. The North frontage is more refine. The simple patterns in line with the trumeau remind the circle game on the front frontage as well as the stump hat keeps the same code.