Grace Santorini Hotel in Imerovigli, Santorini, Greece

May 04, 2011 Category: Commercial Building, Hotel

Located in Imerovigli, Santorini, Greece, Grace Santorini Hotel was designed by Divercity & Mplusm. This 20-room hotel is carved into the cliff-face 300m above Santorini’s volcanic caldera. The understated design allows this extraordinary landscape to take centre stage. The hotel provides a contemporary interpretation of vernacular architecture: economy of space, radical simplicity, and organic forms. Like Santorini’s yposkafa – cave-like dwellings with rounded walls and domed roofs excavated from the rock-face – no furniture is free-standing. Custom-built storage and vanity units are moulded into alcoves. All-white interiors with brushed concrete floors reiterate the trademark whitewashed houses of the Cyclades. The infinity pool’s jagged outline echoes the zigzag paths that criss-cross Santorini’s sheer terrain.

Grace Santorini Hotel design by Divercity & Mplusm