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Entwurf • Design krampulz meyer architekten
Erdgeschoss • Ground floor
1./2. Obergeschoss • 1st/2nd floor
Dachgeschoss • Attic floor
Bauherr • Client Hotel Kitz GmbH, Metzingen
Standort • Location Pfleghofstr. 30, Metzingen
Nutzfläche • Floor space 1.125 m 2
Fotos • Photos Roland Halbe, Stuttgart
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 185
HOTEL KITZ
IN METZINGEN
Hotels are no longer mere overnight accommodations,
they are becoming urban refuges with a high interior
quality - contact points for both travellers and residents
of a city. Like the Hotel Kitz in Metzingen. Designed by
krampulz meyer architekten, the house sees itself as a
large shared apartment where the common rooms are
staged as an open-plan living room.
M ore than four million customers from over 185 nations shop in
the Metzingen Outlet City every year. They come from the
surrounding area as well as from China, South Korea or Switzerland
to find not only perfectly tailored men's suits, unusual designer
handbags or discounted luxury products, but also a bed for the night.
It is no longer a secret that the medium-sized town at the foot of the
Swabian Alb often reaches its limits in this respect, and com-
fortable overnight accommodation is rare. Since December 2017,
Hotel Kitz with its 23 rooms can provide a small remedy here.
Located in the middle of the old town, the new building blends into
the contrasting fields of tradition and modernity. Stuttgart-based
architects Benjamin Krampulz and Michael Meyer have succeeded in
dealing sensitively with the existing surrounding development, rein-
terpreting and thus linking it to the design of the modern outlets: This
is reflected in the elaborated base of the three-storey building, the
modern interpretation of the wooden window elements with folding
shutters and the reduced, geometrically clear saddle roof without
roof overhang. In the interior, too, the designers play with compatible
contrasts and so, thanks to also Stuttgart-based interior designer
Monika Hesprich, "charming natural purity is combined with urban-
ity and simple elegance with a love of detail". This is particularly evi-
dent in the hotel’s discreetly designed individual rooms: while the
ceilings of the guest rooms are constructed from transparent glazed
precast concrete elements and the floors from sanded cement
screed, all wall cladding and almost all fixtures are made from plain
birch plywood. All these rooms are complemented by the open
reception area on the ground floor, which also serves as a lobby,
breakfast area, and bar. In this heart of the building, the retro style
of the 1960s with Scandinavian influences and the consistent use of
the colour green are not only intended to symbolize the proximity to
nature, but also to refer to the "urban jungle", which is after all only
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