The WAF Named The Glamorous ANNA Stay World Hotel Building Of The Year 2022

Caspar Schols’ modular timber cottage earned the World Hotel Building of the Year 2022 Award at the recent World Architecture Festival (WAF). The ANNA Stay project is well-known for its environmentally friendly architecture, enabling visitors to reconnect with nature and humanity.

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The Story Behind ANNA Stay

ANNA Stay, with its two shielding folding pearls, lets you open out and become a part of your environment, with an exterior shell composed of wood and an internal body of the double glass. ANNA Stay adapts to weather, moods, or circumstances by switching the two covers, allowing us to connect to a world we naturally relate to.

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ANNA’s secure wooden shell maintains warmth like a thick winter blanket. In the spring and autumn, the glass keeps the rain out and lets the light in to heat the area. If the temperature rises too high, guests can either slide and close the wooden layer to maintain the chill within or slide the glass layer open to let an excellent breeze enter.

It is possible to live and sleep outside or beneath the glass in all weather conditions while wearing protective clothing.

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ANNA Stay’s Unique Journey

ANNA Stay adapts to its surroundings and flows with the beauty of nature so that you can truly experience it rather than merely look at it. ANNA simply sets the setting for witnessing the beauty of a tremendous rain shower from beneath the glass roof, for awakening with the morning birds, enchanted by the evening sky from the tranquility of your bed.

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ANNA Stay’s Sustainable Architecture

The modular design of ANNA Stay in fast construction time on-site with minimal ecological harm, lets the hotel stand out as one of the best sustainable, if not the best in 2022. ANNA Stay has been created in such a way that 80% of its unique pieces can be manufactured in the future using a digital file on CNC machines and 3D printers anywhere in the globe. The unique aluminum rails with an integrated wind labyrinth are the most innovative feature and materials used in the construction phase.

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With sustainability as the primary concern, ANNA Stay ensures that there is little environmental impact associated with transportation. Because materials expand differently under various climates and situations, achieving a tolerance of less than 1 millimeter in the moving parts was a major task.

A combination of Accoya wood, birch plywood, and aluminum provided the solution for the designers. The materials used in ANNA can all be entirely separated and reused.

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