Hotel Tivoli

Aachen, Germany

Photo © Jens Kirchner

Drawing © CROSS Architecture

Photo © Jens Kirchner

Dynamische Wahrnehmung der Fassade

Drawing © CROSS Architecture

Hotels + Hostels + Guest Houses

Architects: CROSS Architecture

Location: Krefelder Straße, Aachen, Germany
Year: 2017
Client: DaixKo Hotelbaugesellschaft mbH & Co.KG
Competition: 2011, 1st prize
Architect: CROSS Architecture / Benthem Crouwel GmbH
Project team: M. Sporer, C. Wens, J. Görling, S. Vijgen, F. Elsh
Building services: DSTR Planungsgesellschaft mbH
Structural engineering: B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Building physics: B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Fire protection: B. Walter Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Landscape architect: Greenbox Landscape Architects PartG
Gross floor area: 9,800 m²

Since 2010, on the former “Tivoli” area alongside the Krefelder Straße, a new and attractive residential area is in the making, spiked with high profile office and commercial spaces. The new development of a 3-star Hilton group hotel – halfway between the motorway and the historical city center – marks with its cubing´s conscious superelevation and its extraordinary façade not only the new city quarter but also the important city entry situation at the foot of the “Lousberg”.

The façade as accent – The hotel encloses the square shaped property on three sides. The 164 guest rooms and additional spaces are combined by design into a compact, partly pending structure above a generous driveway and seamlessly connected open hotel lobby.

The hotel´s outstanding and memorable constitutive criteria is the custom made curtain wall made of three-dimensionally shaped aluminum sheets. They are vertically arranged – breaking through the punched window façade´s stringent rhythm and creating a subtle dynamic through their varying dimensions. With its spatial deepness and powerful crimson colour, the hotel´s façade sets a distinctive creative mark with a striking long range effect at one of the city´s most important radial roads.