Context

The new B&B hotel opens its headquarters in Alicante with an interior designed by Tres Cinco Unowho sought to incorporate a distinctive visual gesture in the lobby and cafeteria area: an intervention that would provide identity, warmth and a sculptural presence capable of transforming the atmosphere of the space.
The studio invited us to develop a material piece that would dialogue with the architecture and reinforce the welcoming experience of the hotel.

Challenge

To design a suspended installation that would evoke the immersive sensation of the sea – a symbolic reference to the Mediterranean coastline – using an organic, light and expressive biomaterial.
The challenge was to produce almost 400 individual pieces, each with a sinuous shape and specific lighting behavior, ensuring formal coherence, strength and a fluid visual presence on a large scale.

The solution

For this project we developed a composition formed by 392 pieces of Reolivar Air, our biomaterial created from olive pits and natural biopolymers.
The pieces, handcrafted in three different sizes, are suspended from the ceiling forming an undulating cloud that resembles the surface of the sea as seen from the depths of the ocean.
The light passes softly through the material, generating reflections and sparkles that amplify the abyssal effect and envelop the lobby in an intimate and contemplative atmosphere.
The modular system allows the intervention of large spaces while maintaining a coherent, organic and fully sustainable visual language.

Value generated

The installation brings an iconic gesture to the lobby of B&B Alicante, reinforcing the identity of the space through a material intervention linked to the territory and nature.
The project demonstrates how biomaterials can be integrated into commercial interior design projects providing aesthetics, sustainability and narrative, and consolidates the collaboration between Naif Lab and interior design studios that seek circular and emotionally evocative solutions.