The island of Ada Ciganlija is a popular destination for residents of Belgrade and surrounding cities wishing to engage in leisure activities in a domesticated natural environment. The intensity of use of this territory changes every season and so does its density of residents.
In this context, the proposed intervention explores the potential of the hotel type to become a civic infrastructure offering moments of hospitality to its occasional guests as well as to regular visitors and residents of the island.
Hotel Ciganlija reinterprets the meaning, configuration and materialisation of the hotel lobby, restaurant and bedroom. Learning from the tectonic expression of existing constructions on the site (floating weekend houses and a popular rowing club) the new structure appears as a succession of light frames which degree of permanence varies depending on the robustness of its components and on the changing desires of its users.