THE SCISSORS.NET-ZERO ENERGY TRANSFORMATION
Hotel Kilombo Villas, Praia de Sibaúma, RN, Brazil. 2024

The aim of this second intervention at the Kilombo Vilas Hotel was to convert the Hotel in a Net Zero Energy building powered by a solar station by roofing 400m2 with solar panels around a new axis that connects the two entries of the Hotel with a Reception, Drop-Off, Parking and a loading ramp for the events that are taken place at the Folhas Sagradas Pavilion.

The project and the program are organized by a matrix consisted on a structural timber prefab element (“the scissors”) that is repeated around the axis with the same distance.

The scissor expresses the structural beauty of an elementary exercise of decomposition and transmission of gravitational and wind forces to the plot.

The materials used have a low impact effect and come from inner areas such as wood, bamboo, stone, piassava and vegetation as well as a permeable flooring and an orchard.

The plot site, 6 degrees below the equator has more than 300 days of sun exposure, a tremendous renewable energy that has converted the Hotel in a Net Zero Carbono building, generating 130.000 Kw/h per year, 30% more than the energy that the building needs.

Like in the original Tom Jobim´s Bossa Nova classic “Samba de Uma Nota Só”, which mainly structure is made out of one single note , the Project organizes the space and the program with the repetition of one single prefab element: “The Scissor “ suggesting that, like in Jobim lyrics, beauty and complexity does not come from accumulation but from Sophistication of Simplicity.