The Alea Resort Hideaway, located in Bad Orb, Germany, is a hotel designed by Plajer + Franz in 2024. This sophisticated piece of architecture offers an innovative experience with an underground carpark, penthouses, a rooftop pool, and a spa with a gym. The interior features high-quality furnishings, including large-format tiles, french parquet flooring, and exposed concrete ceilings, creating a refined yet youthful ambience. Penthouses boast room heights up to five metres, with interiors clad in oak wood.
The property is situated on a slope and looks down onto one of the most beautiful spa parks in the area. In the late 18th century, salt was extracted from the brine in Bad Orb. A graduation tower from that time is a spectacular wooden structure in the immediate vicinity.
The task presented a challenge. After the initial assignment, the spatial programme grew from normal hideaway flats to an extremely sophisticated project with an underground car park, penthouses, a pool on the roof and a spa with gym.
In addition to the high-quality furnishings and the sophisticated fixtures and fittings, which were completely designed and manufactured especially for this project, the inconspicuous but innovative building technology is also worth mentioning.
Guests receive a number code and an app link on their phone and can use it to operate all the functions and doors of their temporary flat.
The flats are fitted with large-format tiles and french parquet flooring. the continuous exposed concrete ceilings of the three metre high rooms create a harmonious, high-quality and youthful ambience.
On the upper floor, there are penthouses with room heights of up to five metres and even higher-quality fittings. The sloping roof surfaces are clad on the inside with oak wood, in which a special design conceals the lighting, air conditioning and sound system.
A pool on the roof provides a view of the park. Its roof louvres can be opened and allow the heated pool to be used all year round.
A spa with sauna and steam bath as well as a gym look out over the five metre high room. There is so much to tell… but pictures say more than a thousand words.
