Reception and Las Piedras Restaurant

FASANO LAS PIEDRAS

LOCATION BUILT AREA YEAR
Punta del Este, Uruguay
546 m²
2008

Las Piedras Fasano is a hospitality complex in Punta del Este, Uruguay. It combines private homes, hotel bungalows and other amenities – spa, equestrian center, golf and polo fields and a 3-km beach stretch on the riverside of Arroyo Maldonado -, spreading across vast 480 hectares dominated by a dramatic and dazzling landscape: arid, rocky, with sparse low vegetation.
The scenery inspired the previous owner to erect, with the rocks found in the area, his home and studio. Upon our arrival to the first land reconnaissance visit, we had no doubt those buildings – rustic and of unique workmanship – should be preserved.
The detailed study of the program/client brief led us to resort to scattering the units making up the complex, conceived and distributed as isolated modules that “landed naturally” on the terrain, such as the rocks themselves – a solution intended at preventing the erection of massive buildings or volumes that might excessively interfere with the landscape. It also led to the decision of setting the hotel reception and the Las Piedras Restaurant at the ancient home, where breakfast is served.

AUTHOR

Isay Weinfeld

COLLABORATORS

Domingos Pascali
Marcelo Alvarenga

PROJECT MANAGER

Monica Cappa

DESIGN TEAM

Adriana Aun
Bruno Levy
Manoel Maia
Alexandre Nobre
Juliana Scalizi
Sebastian Murr
Leandro Garcia

PHOTOS

Fernando Guerra

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