i-SUITE, the reflection of Ambienthotels: When we first imagined the i-SUITE plan, we aimed at providing our guests with a place different from the conventional hotels, and most of all different from most Rimini Hotels. In daily life we subdue all things to rationality, we repeat and optimize each action in such way that numbers and ratios become the basic criteria for defining the shape of bedrooms, bathrooms and common spaces which seem to have more in common with algebra than with the warm and touching atmosphere Ambienthotel aims at creating as it has always done so far. At that time i-SUITE represented a great challenge of setting new standards and eliminating bias in the hotel sector, taking the adventure of creating a place where people feel at ease, are amazed and they can carry a good memory of us and our cities when being home. These are the reasons why we asked our designers to plan rooms having all different shapes and not resembling parallelepipeds but rather the irregular spaces of a luxurious mansion while being at the same time domestic as a cosy house. We designed our rooms as much as 40, 50 and even 70 square meters in order to give our guests a great sense of freedom, all the room overlook to the beach or to the sea enabling our guest to enjoy the view both in winter and in summer. In addition our intention was revolutionising the reception system because we wanted i-SUITE to be not just an hotel but rather a private space where authentic relations between people form. That is why we pensioned off the traditional reception desk establishing the hierarchy between the customer and the reception staff. We welcome them in the same way as friends welcome guests home, by means of a tight handshake and smiling. Lastly we made a daring and informal choice, that is, dedicating the most important part of the building to the wellness center which is the higher and most panoramic area of the building. This resulted in an environment full of light and energy and benifiting from the sun radiation which is linked to the external swimming pool by an elevator: it resembles a large sculpture made up of water which remains at 35 degrees even in winter. We are confident friends and guests spending their time in these spaces in order to relax or after an hard working day will get vigour and will be happy. Today i-SUITE is ready and it matches the dreamlike idea we came up with perfectly. This is a five star area but it is likely to be used as an unconventional place and we hope that all our guests will describe this place not just like a beautiful hotel but rather like a place where you can feel at ease in Rimini”. Marco Ermeti at Ambienthotels

The architecture signed by Giovanni Quadrelli, a reflection: It is an hotel neologism, a breakthrough in novelty. it is dynamic. It aims at the first magnitude. i-SUITE takes its inspiration from the changes, from the thrust of a light ray filtering, then leaving the sea and by dodging the glass surfaces arrives to the hearth of things. We start from the center of a room, the luggage are already in the room and the future is not rectilinear. There is a contrast between static state and dynamic state. It represents the Möbius strip of a Rimini which does not make any stops and does not want to sleep. It is the crossroad of a world constantly leaving. Then, it comes here on vacation and you become a king to. And the waves are right there. A vertical sea (a pure but also tragic curtain being open but closed as the same time) divides the age of the sun from that of the fog, the age of a child lost in the beach from that of a city more by accident than design. What about changing that? Destination wide spaces! Everything moves inside and everything goes out. The strenght of transparency which is always dynamic and mischievous invites people to enjoy the open spaces, even though they are private, permeable to the sight but reserved at the same time. It interacts with the world which remains outside by giving and taking, winking and drawing back. It plays with matter without giving in to the bad habits of the place. It forms a curvy, intriguing, mysterious, sensitive new image. By creating this hotel I aimed at shedding a new light on the hotel sector in my city. In an age when hotel industry dreams about sojourning in the space we designed the plan in midair underlining lightness and purity by using glass, we used soft colours blinded by the sun, white rippled walls resembling sinuous dresses beckoning the guest to follow them. The artificial lighting as well is instrumental in making the experience of the senses even intenser. Nights of all colours, that is our first aurora, a bathing aurora! Architect Giovanni Quadrelli

The architecture signed by Simone Micheli, a reflection: The i-SUITE interior architectural plan lies its foundations in the concept of modern luxury I developed after a thorough and targeted thinking. During the “XXX Congreso Colombiano de Arquitectura” ( 30th Colombian Architecture Convention) which took place in Barranquilla (Colombia) in 2007 I asserted: “…the new luxury does not mean immobility or habit, but rather freedom and movement. It is a light and a stirring thought, at any moment we are able to choose where and how to live and to reinvent the environment we live in. As for architecture the new luxury is related to the idea of regaining the beauties and the truth of our daily life together with our inner feelings. It is more connected with vacuums than with plenums, more with mind than with body. It does not mean opulence but rather transparency. I am talking about possible places where yours and our histories are echoing in the shape of visual, olfactory, tactile and auditory essence. I am telling you a story which has its roots in the past and in the tastes of exotic places but at the same time it is near and next future oriented. This future I am referring to is not made up of mimesis, emulation but rather it reprensents the truth and the oneness which envelope and protect us in order to live instead of just surviving in a restless and alienating reality. I am talking about non-places, natural habitats where the deepest and the most genuine personality of each person emerges and where anyone can establish a symbiotic relationship with himself and with the nature which created us. It has visual and inner harmony, it is the mirror of our mood which becomes calmer and stabler. Spirituality and beauty involve us in a aesthetic experience with all that is around us and with all we build with our body and mind. All this leads to the birth of a new place suitable for the inner growth but also for the development of our present or future family which is proud and grateful for having the chance of enjoying the cohesiveness the family is surrounded by. Daily relations and interactions as well will benefit from this cohesiveness by being enriched with passion and enthusiasm. I aim at making man the main focus of the attention by stirring up his senses by means of shapes, images, colours, lights, materials and by creating a scenario hovering among trascendence and immanence, concreteness and abstraction, dream and reality. I am referring to spaces in the world, where man represents a fourth dimension worth studying and to be sensorially satisfied. Moreover, each element in these spaces bring man back to the origins of time when everything was pure and simple. In my opinion the word luxury could go beyond the limits of its meaning. Nowadays living in a luxurious sphere means being able to love and being loved in a genuine and absolute way, it means being surrounded by simplicity and let have our attention drawn by watching a grass blade waving in the wind. It means regaining the truth of life, living by appreciating the beauty of each day and by growing through the intangible physicity. It means reconsidering, dreaming, starting to love again without asking anything back, giving without having anything back. It means building without destroying, creating processes having a strong ethical sense and capable of becoming generators of healthy beauty. This is how I see luxury, which does not mean opulence and redundancy but rather the essentials, ethical gestures contents oriented, free spaces with scattered basic elements. I wish to create new stories connected with the world of the wonders having no bonds with tradition, I aim at symplifying and improve the life of man by eliminating all the unessential and undesired elements in the space he lives in”. The interior architecture of the i-SUITE seems to embody the meaning of these words. It represents an hyperrealist portrait related to the dimension of ethical luxury I pursue by means of my architectural works. i-SUITE is ready for living in an informal way as a work capable of converting experience into memory. i-SUITE enables our guests to go beyond the borders of reality and to live in dreamlike almost surreal space and time dimension. i-SUITE is a tridimensional area where everything becomes simple and extraordinary at the same time where the contemporary man can discover his natural/artificial known/unknown habitat. In this wrapped place serotonin, endorphin and adrenaline levels of the visitors skyrocket! This lively place enables our guests to smile,to relax, to meet and have conversation with other people. This is an unforgettable area which enables our guests to enter a dimension of freedom, beauty and uniqueness unconsciously”. Architect Simone Micheli

The visual design signed by Roberta Colla, a reflection: It all began with the reflection on the concept of i-SUITE. It all began by sharing the totemic but informal name of this hotel, with the Ermeti brothers, that is, i-SUITE. i-SUITE is an hotel telling about itself not as a lifeless object but rather as a living entity. It features an identity rich in emotions and feelings which expresses its strong personality and its purposes in order to involve the guest in a dynamic space experience that will leave an indelible mark on his memory. i-SUITE makes those who enter this magic world feel like actors in the same way as a movie director does, and gives the chance of enjoying the common daily gestures which become extraordinary moments. The extremely essential corporate identity accompanies the guest along his journey in the hotel telling about itself by giving direct clear evocative messages and signs. The graphics of the i-SUITE hotel features white, green and silver colours. The green colour representing the expression of life characterizes it as a entity which is alive and animating those who look at it. The silver colour expresses the dynamism of the interior, the white colour lends rigour and elegance to the hotel. Everything ranging from the coordinate clothes of the staff to the table setting and to the internal and external signs show the meticulous attention to details. The objects and the people being at the heart of the i-SUITE coexist harmoniously. We designed i-SUITE as an "entity" providing a meticolous service to the guests by following them and involving them in the i-SUITE experience carefully. A lively experience which is worth living! Roberta Colla Micheli

CELEBRATING THE EXCELLENCE The celebration of excellence. Celebrating contemporaneity, splendour, the marvels, lightness, elegance, rigour, balanced essentiality, the rigorous and functional distribution control. We paid scrupulous attention to the even smaller detail. We threw aside the traditional hotel design patterns, we aimed at creating a contemporary icon, a unique work suitable for a city who boasts such an highly developed accomodation and entertaiment industry that they represent its main resources. It is a new all-suite hotel offering a quality standard which is higher than that is expected for an hotel of this category. It is another dimension, a breathtaking atmosphere suspended between present and future capable of bringing us to a new world by distorting time and space. i-SUITE is not just an avantgarde hotel but rather a tridimensional manifesto of the possible marriage of architecture, sensoriality and eccellence.It is the result of the synergy between basic functional furnishing, fluid, plastic shapes, and the private experience of the guest enjoying this dreamlike journey tending to the unreal. This is an interactive, hybrid, touching iconoclastic place having striking features and being rich in evocative and moving elements which result in making it unique.

i-OUT i-SUITE is the result of the desire of opening up new horizons by using iron and glass as the main elements for the load bearing structure. The west oriented wall parallel to the promenade must conform to the wall curtain located in viale Regina Elena in a smooth way by means of the soft shapes of the balconies, of the swimming pool and by using glass for the parapets. The large window overlooking the swimming pool has a surface amounting to 27 metres. It is anchored to the building structure and it is designed to dilate up to 10 centimetres during summer. Vertical self load bearing iron and wood made ways can be seen through the transparent surfaces. A close-up view shows a step suspended by drop laser shaped iron elements. The corridors are designed as an extension of the exterior and they are clearly distinguished from the swimming pool. The texture is made up of MDF 3D shaped modules and it is located by repeated patterns on the wall which results in creating an evocative effect of sand smoothed by the waves. The LED lighting from the twilight to the dawn makes the atmosphere charged with evocative emotions. The continuous façade is interrupted by the glass shapes of the stairway room having a shiny grain glass structure supported by a steel spiderweb like structure which enhances its. geometry.This stairway links the ground floor to the first floor. The ceiling as well is made up of structural glass suspended by steel tensioned cables. From this point the view of the “ swimming pool scuplture” is magnificent. From the stairway room a narrow way resembling a sinuous river opens out to the equipped wellness bath. The structure is suspended on the basement and it was made by shaping the concrete softly. On the same façade up to the interior we can see big snow white waves made by using pernervometal system which consists in an iron structure (shaped rods) covered by a fine knit iron net and by applying some sprayed concrete several times. Lastly it is shaped, hand smoothed, and water repellent semi-gloss paints are applied. A 3D 1/20 scaled model was created in order to design part of the building and of the reception entrance so that the applicators draw the real measurements for working in height and depth. Coupled anti-breaking glass sheets work as parapet for the balconies.They are anchored in to the balcony slab at 20 cm depth by means of a steel vice which sustains and aligns them. The windows frames are made up of aluminum and they slide thanks to the “Lift and Slide System”. They mark the border between the room and the balcony. Outside the flooring is made up of wood laths resembling a ship deck. On the west oriented walls overlooking the sea the architectural work aimed at safeguarding the surrounding environment, preserving the green and the light proceeding from east is to be found. That is why we used glass for the façades which offers its pecurial features such as luminosity, transparency and reflexibility. This building is completely surrounded by the colours of nature by means of the exchange between the interior and the exterior that glass makes possible. The big curved “ribs” on the façade are made up of fibreglass and they are moulded and coloured by using the “gel coat” system (which is similar to the one used in the shipbuilding industry). They resemble the profile of an hull: in fact, they have no structural but rather scenographic purpose. On the base “the ground connection” steel junction of the yard system underlines the off shore setting. The background is completed by a portion of circular bulding working as the barycentre of the two wings. Above here the attic floor which is covered by white wood girders forming the the ceiling is located. The interior is illuminated by the curvilinear large windows overlooking the near harbour and the whole coast as well up over the horizon working as an ideal command bridge. On the side of the sea huge crumbs of Istria stones left by a gigantic Thumb Tom on the neutral surface of the meadow together with a thread of flickering blue LEDS welcome the guest and accompany him to the main entrance. Here a stela which is made up of Istria stone as well, features the same shapes of the flooring and of the logo, and by attracting the attention of the guest it announces that the show has just begun.

i-IN When passing the entrance threshold a new background showing an informal way to perform the task of reception emerges. In fact the guest is welcomed by a metropolitan living room made up of snow white couches having highly coloured rigid disks and of smooth walls which look so sinuous that resemble a theatre stage curtain fabric which has just been raised. There is no traditional reception desk, the welcoming entrance hall becomes a meeting place where people socialize, talk, display and show off. Snow white surfaces an bewitching volumetries together with piercing colours strokes characterize the visual area. All the feature share the intention of expressing contemporaneity, beauty and new contents. The large hall leading to the sinuous external swimming pool is vibrant with light thanks to the linear blue leds which make the white couches seem to float being suspended on the floor which is made up of large size glossy porcelained gres tiles. The mirror walls surrounding the bar cover nearly 80% of the perimeter of the ground floor . They are silk screened with random dizzying concentric hand-sketched circles, and a sparkling explosion of bubbles which dilate the space.The theatrical celing narrow beam light lights are oriented by the lamps of a futuristic spaceship enhancing the furnishing, the walls and the different materials. Tall sinuous bright acid green trees having long branches which seem to float into the space creating kaleidoscopic setting leaving a unique, deep memory involving the guests in an all senses experience by means of reflections and evocative effects on the mirror surface together with the changeable projections on the wavy walls. The traditional desk for registrating the guests together with the back-office operation posts and the toilet facilities are completely teak covered, they are all located behind wings in the center of the ground floor stretching as sinuosly as a drape, resembling a metaphorical aurora borealis. It looks like soft wave working as a barrier between the two entrance halls and underlining the way it leads to at the same time. This reference icon becomes a symbolic element in the external façades. Near the large living room on the side of the swimming pool following the fluid curtain a mouth holding a fire sign, that is, a cosy fireplace is located. A willowy steel tape marks the openings in the mirror walls of the bar, interiorly in the hall and exteriorly in the swimming pool and it works not only as a frame but also as a valuable tray for support and for tasting. The allusion and illusion game is completed by round small containers which resemble flying saucers floating in the air hold lcd monitors add rhythm and give life to the walls .Three big circular containers suspended in the space of the windows become three gigantic eyes facing a parallel universe, they are capable of generating lights, colours and images in quick succession. Having lunch at the i-SUITE restaurant is as exciting. The purity of the furnishing, of the tables, of the benches and of the seats is a dominant element in the setting and it interrupted only by the acid green lightnings of the tablecloth and of the bottom of the mirror buffet counter and by the rest of the walls as well. A radiant and sparkling light and reflection play is enhanced by the table and chairs legs and the stainless steel covered pillars. On the ceiling there are no ceiling lamps but rather shaped pierced monitors where images and light are projected, an ever-changingchromatic show which is emphasized by the dreamlike screen printings on the mirror and all the relative reflections. i-SUITE arouses a wide range emotions but the dominating feeling is that everything can change at any time, that nothing is definite or definable according to the strict and limiting criteria of ordinariness. 54 fully equipped suites located over 5 floors represent the most exclusive offer available in the Adriatic coast. 54 suites are distribuited between 2 branches of the hotel by means of a corridor having a muffled and mysterious atmosphere. Another dimension of perceptions representing the threshold leading to the intimacy of the rooms converts the corridors into an all senses experience tunnel where doors and walls disappear in order to form a continuous wavy curtain, a willowy winking drapery like a light silk pettycoat. The walls which are enhanced by ceiling installed leds hide the entrance doors of the suites and they become the guardians of mysterious secret passages. Only the room number which is printed on the badge reader and the door handles which is composed of hollow brushed steel cylinder reveals the presence of the doors by means of the reflection of the warm tones of the teak floor and of the color changing leds built in the floor itself. These doors are the thresholds leading to an enchanted world. Each suite has a different surprise in store, a different chromatic combination, a different use of the materials, a different space distribution. All suite share the same scrupulous attention to detail, the enhanced sensorial features which stir a wide range of emotions in the guest. The finishing of the large walls hiding the vanishing closets and the doors, the finishing of the bathrooms feature Canaletto walnut finishing or lacquer finishing in black or white colours. The relationship between the shapes, the pure glossy porcelained gres floors and the teak floors is rigorous and harmonious. The same holds true for the vigorous dynamic of the counter ceiling sloping cuts which can be teak inlaid or teak faced as well. Soft and sinuous poufs, fluid and curvy shaped couches upholstered with acid green fabric which is the common colour for all the rooms welcome the guest when entering each boundless room. Entirely mirror covered walls surround the most intimate area of the suite sporting a large snow white ottoman which features a wide mattress suspended in the space, it creates allusions and reflections and empahsizes the panoramic view of each room. Beleveled edge totemic furniture stand out in the room as an icon and display their interactive interior sporting a lcd monitor. In addition, each bed is equipped with another suspended monitor which is built in a mirror covered beleveled edge container hanging from the ceiling. In the mirror covered wall behind the bed the traditional bedside tables are replaced by a deep narrow recess illuminated from inside which resembles a big mouth. Deep narrow recesses, stainless steel microcopies of the design of the bedhead underline the profile of the doors of the wall closets and of the bathrooms and work as handles. Fluid mirrors rotate along its angles and around the edges, overhang desk shelves form daring suspended geometries. Huge circular solid surface baths and big sensory showers diplay themselves and their users at the center of the suite surrounded by large mirror walls, burning fireplaces in each room blend harmoniously in the overall design of this visionary magnificent architecture inside the architecture. The lighting of each suite is efficient and well-targeted without being banal, it is evocative and stirs emotions, gives life to the matter by making it pulsating and confirms the truth of the definition of Architecture by Le Corbusier, i.e., "Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light." The oblique white lights underline the profile of the illuminated surfaces while the the color changing leds bring the furnishing and the baths where they are located to a surreal dimension. All these features generate a unique atmosphere capable of involving the guest in this unforgettable dream. The bathrooms of the rooms represent authentic beauty and relax rooms, and they feature a plain but elegant style. On the one hand the radiant bathrooms walls are entirely mirror and simple rough porcelained gres slabs covered on the other hand the floor features smooth glossy porcelained gres tiles. The washbasins, the baths and the shower plates are made up of solid surface and they are integrated into the furniture. Suspended and mirror built in monitors,large extra-bright glass partition surfaces, wide windows revealing breathtaking panoramic views make this experience unique when traditionally the bathroom is an area which is often overlooked and reduced to a cramped and blind space. On the 5th floor a suite covering a surface of nearly 70 square meters is located and it is the result of joining two rooms together. This suite sports a gigantic circular bed that swivels enabling the guest to not only enjoy an optimal sight of the sea but also the whole suite area such as the the cosy living room equipped with couch, fireplace and lcd tv, split bathroom which is divided in the same way as the living room by the bedroom by means of a full height glass wall than can be opened completely. On the same floor a turkish bath enriched with a color therapy system is to be found. On the 6th floor the Wellness centre is located. Near a large curved window overlooking the horizon line dividing the sea from the sky a vast relax room is situated, it sports custom made furniture and couches as all the other details of the hotel are. Acid green lightnings characterize the furniture of the solid surface wellness centre.The cylindrical tables give another coat of green colour which results in enhancing the white radiant profile of the snow white couches. The spa environment features soft ways having white Istria stones flooring: two sauna ceddar laths lined cabins positioned at 60 and 90 degrees as well as the thalassotherapy bath wind by a full height large window to the infinite space of the sky and the sea. A shiny iridescent mosaic lined turkish bath having blue leds which enhance its surfaces, three body treatment cabins, a cabin equipped with a solar bed and a snow room, a small gym and a large panoramic swimming pool equipped with hydromassage and waterfalls complete the dreamlike setting.When It gets dark spectacular light beams cross the spaces and underline the profiles of the flashing suspended furniture and the ones of a soft couch where lieing down and enjoying the show of the night kissing the silver sea surface. Enchanted portholes in the walls light up with blue in the same way as blue waving lanterns, the acidated glass doors of the cabins show the activities performed inside by lighting up. During the daytime and even more during the night i-SUITE proves to be a unique work capable of becoming a milestone in the concept of accommodation: an architectural manifesto having on the one hand ever changing metropolitan life related connotation, on the other hand it is capable of involving the guests in a new unforgettable all senses tridimensional dimension.