From WMA:

‘The complex contains 300 hotel rooms a convention center with the capability for 500 people and 23 rooms for reunions. Beyond that the complex contains an enormous sports center, an office building, a parking zone and a landing zone for helicopters.

The ‘Resort’ of Saint Petersburg is a perfect example to incorporate the structure of a building with its surrounding environment.

The building creates a recognizable  silhouette in the boundary of the city.

The shape of the construction equals an artificial landscape. With its different undulations the membrane equals mountains that accrete and accumulate the snow, which is omnipresent in the city.

The white roof cover of the building shows a contrast to the colors and materials of whole complex.’

Willy Müller Architects (in collaboration with: BPG Arquitectes and THB Consulting)

Site: San Petersburgo, Rusia
Competition date: (restricted) 2007, first prize
Project phase: 2008/2009
Area: 135.000 M2
Cost: 300.000.000 euros
Client: GC Development Group

Architects:  WMA – Willy Müller Architects
Willy Müller, Principal Architect
Fred Guillaud, Associate Architect

Architects:  Mario Perez Botero, Sabine Bruinink, Bruno Louzada, Christian Kreifelts, Fransisco Villeda, Augusto Alvarenga, Samuel Martin Guerra, Sergio Pruccoli.
Collaborators: Elke Gall, Sergio Ramos, Gijs Verhoofstad.

Models: Fabian Asuncion.

Structure consultant: BOMA
Installation consultant: Grupo JG