How to build a space where hospitality provides romance and deep contact with nature but still boosts social encounters? How to lead people to really share with one another this extreme experience of one of the most remote places on the planet?

People naturally seek for complicity of others when going thru extraordinary days. Everyone in this island is connected by a common search and dedication to achieve one of the biggest archetypes in literature: the island. The ultimate metaphor for isolation allows people to do things they would not normally do. Without pressures of society, we go back to the basics of humanity; we’re linked to each other. 

The hotel in the Maldives has extremely delicate volumetric answers, respectful to its surroundings, trying to provide shadows and coziness, to capture and amplify the landscape strength. The architectural lines never break the horizon, they speak low and elegantly. All buildings are visually permeable, melted, dematerialized, putting life and men in the center of the experience. 

The island’s shape followed natural curves. The greens take care of almost all the island and determine a series of beaches and trails in the nature, erasing any traces of human gestures. The only built path, in wood, determines an axis that organizes the whole program for the hotel. On the left there are the main building and most of the villas. To the right, there’s the spa and the common spaces of the village and beach club. The landscape ornaments the whole island, creates privacy for the villas and unfolds to highlight the most important common buildings, establishing a hierarchy of focuses to the different constructions. 

The construction of Patina Maldives was also commited with applying sustainable practices to reduce the project’s environmental impact. The use of prefabricated materials and locally sourced, biodegradable and reusable materials were efforts made which significantly reduced waste, carbon emission and energy consumption. All timber is PEFC-certified and sourced from 100 percent transparent supply chains. The resort is also the first one in the Maldives to have a 100% solar-powered kid’s club and recreational centers, with infrastructure to expand to 50 percent of the whole resort energy to solar powered. 

The hotel is a kaleidoscope of atmospheres organized in an ascending way: from private to public, from isolation to belonging, from simplicity to sophistication. We escalate the textures and emotions from 0 to 100, from soft shadows to overwhelming light. It’s a rhythm with contrast, pauses and transparencies. From slow dolce far niente to exuberant real vitality, it is a place for people to bond with nature and each other, for people to experience the essential with glamour.