Hotel | Swiss Alps | Cliff Martinez | Helicopter | 2005

A short film I made in my fourth year of architecture studies, with the intention to communicate the idea that my hotel design aimed to support; in short that the place people stay in should respect the place they visit and experience, and that the notion of traveling is one of a gradual transition from one environment to another. The design therefore proposed a series of small 2-4 room elements spread around a variety of sites, each independent and reflecting their surroundings in their design, and taking advantage of the differing situations, rather than landing a single monolithic structure onto one site, something I felt was neither appropriate nor even a benefit to this site or the program of a hotel.




I took inspiration from the existing infrastructure of the valley; avalanche shelters, electricity substations for example. A wonderful journey with good friends, and an interesting project to work on. I hope someone out there enjoys watching it.

Finally, the music - I thought the wonderful, ethereal and hypnotic work of Cliff Martinez (who created soundtracks to films such as Traffic and Solaris) was perfect to communicate these ideas, combining both melancholic harmonies and sublte variations in pace and rhythm.

I hope it works.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Hotel
• Design
• Swiss
• Alps
• Cliff
• Martinez
• Helicopter
• Architecture
• student
• work
• architectural
• journey
• Zurich
• Vals

[AphexFick]

Beautiful track and excellent video. Kudos.

[desiggers]

@AphexFick Thank you!  The track does most of the work, I would say, and therein lies the power of music...

[theweelassie]

love this, great footage it flows really well. I know this is totally a random thing to say but the reason I discovered Cliff Martinez was that we share the same birthday, so I was curious about his music. a pleasing discovery.

[desiggers]

hi there, thank you. And no, it's not so random, although I found his music through watching Traffic and Solaris. Cheers!

[45009234]

Wow man, this is beautiful.

Fucking saved!

[desiggers]

Thank you, much appreciated.

[mcplump]

hi -- I have grown up with this tune since its release cpl of yrs ago.. it's the first track of my life time compilation.

Thanks for pasting this.. now: is this a sound track of a movie? Which movie??

I love every second of this tune.

[nuna2211]

if you listen to this music than there must be a god.this is so great

[QPG13]

I watched Traffic recently and discovered Cliff Martinez, his music is so legit.

[desiggers]

Thanks. Indeed Cliff Martinez deserves more recognition I think,, wonderful, powerful music.

[Achi11eus]

Pretty amazing. i loved Solaris soundtrack and for eyars listened to it. I loved this song too... and had no idea it was the same guy who composed them. Weird stuff aahha!