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We love the way buildings look (c’mon, we’re an architecture and design website), but sometimes the natural landscape is just too lovely to spoil by plopping a giant skyscraper onto it. Taking that into consideration, MVRDV ^[5] has wowed us again with their plans for a luxury holiday resort that seems to have pulled up a lush green hilltop like a blanket and hidden itself under it. To be located in Montenegro, the grass-clad hotel ^[6] seems to blend in seamlessly with its surroundings – the perfect place for a covert getaway!

Dubbed “Galije” and located on a parcel of untouched coastline land, the resort ^[8] is envisioned as a way to combine exclusivity with a responsible, sustainable embedding of the structure in its surrounding landscape. “The split/limbo we found ourselves in was to design an iconic exclusive luxury resort in projecting total of 100,000 library program that should be invisible. An exclusive residence under cover. As a result we designed the whole project as an offset to the terrain and covered it with a blanket of the original landscape. Where a higher density was needed we lift the blanket to create a hill. The iconic hotel is formed by pulling the blanket in front of the cliff to create a even more dramatic overhang. The more flat parts of the landscape hold the villa’s organized around their private patios facing the sea,” writes MVRDV on their website ^[5].

The resort would contain 115 apartments, 87 hotel rooms, a restaurant, a pool, a parking lot ^[9] and retail space. We think MVRDV succeeded in this goal as the hotel ^[10] is hardly distinguishable from the rough and green terrain except for its round windows showing through the grass.

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