Four Seasons Madrid. Hotel & Private Residences

Signage Design & Wayfinding 

When the urban landscape transcends its funcionality to become a poweful iconography.

GTE has designed and identified the Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences of Madrid, located in the Canalejas complex.

El proyecto de wayfinding ha discurrido a través de un diálogo entre la arquitectura, diseño y la innovación técnica; creando una simbiosis perfecta de tradición y vanguardia. Un nuevo entorno de grandiosa personalidad.

The wayfinding project has run through a dialogue between architecture, design and technical innovation; creating a perfect symbiosis of tradition and avant-garde. A new venue with great personality

GTE has worked throughout the Four Seasons spaces: outdoors (facades, entrances and commercial area), indoors (hotel rooms and residences), common areas (lobby, restaurant and directional areas, corridors, parking) and spa (treatment rooms, changing rooms , fitness room and swimming pool), as well as the back of the house, in Hotel and Private Residences.
























				

			
 
			
 

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				

					
A  great complexity work both in its creative and technical development. The Four Seasons is undoubtedly one of the most important projects in the luxury hotel sector in Madrid. The creative inspiration for the project was determined by the beauty of the bars at the entrance gallery of Alcalá 10, the last building to join the complex in 1942.


Conceptualization – Signage design project, graphic and industrial design of the outdoors, indoors and back of the house identification of the Four Seasons Hotel, Residence and Spa.
 Definition – Concept Design (materials, textures, colors, fonts, graphic lines, etc.) with verification prototypes.
 Wayfinding – Location plans of each element both in plan and elevation
 Design & execution – Plans, final arts
 Supervision and control – Manufacturing and installation, on-site review of the entire implementation
 Final certification project image

				

			
 
			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				

					Exterior and facades. Historical elements transformed into identification of tradition and avant-garde. The exterior identification of Four Seasons Madrid has been designed respecting the essence and personality of the buildings, following all the Heritage Restoration Administration guidelines. The Canalejas complex has been declared National Historical Site since 2012. The identification & wayfinding elements are installed on restored supports. All the pieces have been made with attention to detail, unique pieces combining the latest technology and the know-how of expert craftsmen.
				

			
 
			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				

					Four Seasons Madrid Hotel & Private Residences. Engineering and artisan excellence.


The design of the number plates of the rooms of the Hotel and Private Residences of Four Seasons Madrid, are inspired by the original bars. They have been elaborated thanks to the conjunction of noble materials, such as brass and wood, treated by expert craftsmen, and the latest technical innovations, allowing an impeccable finish with great personality and distinction.


 
				

			
 
			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 

				
				
				

				
				
				
			

			
 
				
				
			
 

				

				
				
				

				
				
				

					Common zones. Wayfinding in 7 buildings not originally connected to each other.


The complexity of the Wayfinding project at Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences in Madrid lies in responding to the requirements of the situation, circulation through the hotel and residences, in addition to coordinating the different uses of space around 7 buildings originally not connected to each other.


The design of the identifying elements of the common areas and its  wayfinding work has been inspired by the rounded forms of art-deco, the predominant architectural style in the Canalejas complex.