Design for a hotel complex for Golf de Sur, Tenerife
c. 360 suites and rooms, 5 restaurants, bars, swimming pools, sport- and wellnesse area, conference rooms, museum
Preliminary drawings, concepts, sketches and plans since 1998
Model 1:100: Andreas Bodi, 2001
Exhibition model 1:100: Andreas Bodi
At the request of Robert Rogner, Hundertwasser sketched a series of preliminary ideas in September 1998 for a five star hotel in the southern part of the island of Tenerife. He imagined a series of flats on descending terraces embedded in a sloping terrain, in which corridors of sight would ensure views of the ocean. Archways were to frame the views and two towers, similar to the columns on Saint Mark's Square in Venice, were to provide additional accents. In order to provide water for the forestation on the roof, Hundertwasser proposed a greywater system.
After Hundertwasser's death, the planning was completed in his spirit by the architect Peter Pelikan, and in 2001 a model of the hotel complex was built. A Hundertwasser Information Centre documenting his work and his architectural and ecological concerns was included in the project.
The project could not be realised because of problems in providing financing.
- R. Schediwy, Hundertwassers Häuser, Vienna, 1999, p. 246
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 1313
- Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 2006, pp. 296/297 (and c), 314
- Der unbekannte Hundertwasser, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2008, pp. 160-163 (and c), 291