La Mola

The La Mola Hotel and Convention Center is located on a site adjacent to the Sant Llorenç de Munt Park and the new El Prat Golf Club in Terrassa, near Barcelona. The project includes a wide program of 186 rooms with complementary infrastructures and services such as restaurants, meeting and convention rooms, auditoriums, multipurpose spaces and health and wellness facilities. Minimizing its impact on the natural environment to arrange such a large program in a soft context and highly sensitized by the footprint of the golf club was one of the essential objectives set from the beginning.

Two of the three emerging volumes house the rooms arranged longitudinally on either side of a central corridor. The south-facing rooms are equipped with a solar protection system consisting of movable perforated sheet metal sliding doors, the color of which draws on the chromatic palette of the landscape. In this way, color becomes a contextualizing mechanism that, far from trying to camouflage, proposes an artificial emulation in an intentional correlation with the nature of the forest and the artificial nature of the golf course.