The One Hotel in Dalmine, Bergamo, designed by the Rome-based Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners architecture studio, is located in a strategic position close to the A4 highway, Orio al Serio international airport, and the historic city of Bergamo. Oriented toward business travellers requiring hospitality services for varying lengths of time, the hotel offers comfortable, graciously fitted out rooms, elegant and functional facilities for conventions and meetings, as well as a bar/bistro, restaurant and fitness center.
The designers conceived the One Hotel as a dark gray parallelepiped animated by three projecting planes: the two vertical main sides of the hotel, suspended above the base; and the horizontal roof slab, faced in Alucobond panels. From the first floor upwards, the long white southeast side of the hotel is protected by an outer envelope made of expanded metal mesh spaced at a slight distance from the inner façade. The top floor, on the other hand, has broad windows that give a feeling of lightness to the long luminous hallway running the length of the building and giving access to the rooms.
The hotel stands somewhat lower than the road level. The pedestrian area along the main façade is separated from the roadway by a white travertine bench, contrasting with the gray bush-hammered basalt paving stones. The entrance is accented by a large gray sheet-metal canopy. The hotel’s three residential floors offer eight single rooms, forty doubles and two junior suites. The décor is characterized by a prevalence of white and ecru, with the exception of the suites, which combine dark gray and white. The private baths in the rooms are finished in travertine marble with smooth gray basalt floors to ensure continuity between interior and exterior.
