Hotel in Sulina

DESIGN COLLECTIVE:

Architecture: arh. LEON SRULOVICI
Resistance: arh. GHEORGHE URSU; Installations: engineers MIHAELA CĂMÎRZAN (thermal), VALENTIN MICLE, PETRE DRAGOTĂ (sanitary), RADU CAZACU (electrical);
Roads: designer FLORENTINA VASILESCU; Building: eng. CĂLIN MACOVEI

GENERAL DESIGNER: INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH AND DESIGN FOR SYSTEMATIZATION, HOUSING AND COMMUNAL HOUSEHOLD - ISLGC - BUCUREȘTI

Located on the Sulina seafront, at the eastern extremity of the city, the hotel represents an endowment with multiple urban advantages. It is located on a promontory, surrounded on three sides by the water of the bay where the passenger ships arriving at the river station turn back, by that of the Danube and by the shimmering harbor basin for pleasure craft. At the entrance to this basin there is also a planted island linked to the hotel grounds by a footbridge.
This site, rare because of its features, was, however, non-existent until the intervention of the planners, who, over time, obtained the modification of the Danube dyking project, in order to increase the surface area to the east, to the detriment of the water.
Also because of its location at a short distance from the sea beach, the hotel, which by its theme was of a town character, is optimally used as a seasonal tourist hotel. For this purpose, two main entrances of equal importance were provided, in the form of enclosures, to the town to the west and to the beach to the south.
At the same time, the hotel building forms a perspective end to the city's seafront promenade and a signal on the Danube at the eastern entrance to the ships.
Resolved in the character of the buildings on the city's waterfront, the hotel has a small number of levels - p + 1-2 and 3 floors - and an accommodation capacity of 150 seats, as well as 250 seats in the catering. The complex is complemented by 5 offices for foreign companies and a multi-purpose operating group consisting of ROMTRANS, NAVLOMAR and a FREE SHOP.
The hotel rooms on all facades have the advantage of a favorable view, whether facing the river port, the Danube or the Sea or the port basin. The rooms are well finished with white walls, wool carpeting and natural ash furniture. The rooms on the first and second floors have been given an added amenity by the presence of French windows in the facade.
The alternations of travertine and white terracotta stand out in the treatment of the facades, as do the blue-painted woodwork and the white window shutters. These shutters have mosquito nets on the inside.
The roof is made of profiled tile, laid on a sloping reinforced concrete slab, over which thermal insulation of 25 cm BCA blocks and bituminous waterproof insulation has been provided.

Arh. LEON SRULOVICI

Arhitectura magazine, nr. 1/1987