Opening of aja Resort
New hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The new aja Resort in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, opened just in time for the 2021 summer season. On an area of ​​18,850 m², the hotel offers its guests the most modern high-quality accommodation in 229 rooms and suites. The structure has a meandering shape, with a basement level and four upper floors. The public areas for guests, such as the restaurant facilities, are located on the ground floor, and the hotel rooms are on the upper floors. There is a sun terrace, and spa and wellness facilities with a sauna area, and an indoor/outdoor pool with a view of the Zugspitze Mountain. The basement houses an underground car park with approx. 140 parking spaces, bicycle racks with charging stations, and the back office and technical services.

Providing extensive services in the fields of structural design and technical building systems, Inros Lackner was involved in the entire planning and design process and in the construction of aja’s sixth resort in Germany. The building was designed with a reinforced concrete framework structure, with an earthquake zone classification of 1 according to nationally applicable design standards. The slender construction and wooden façade required a sophisticated design to ensure the safe transfer of loading from the roof, considering the high snowfalls arising in this Alpine location. The building is ventilated by shafts extending from the roof to the basement, which was a significant factor in the structural design. A total of eight ventilation systems with a capacity of about 100,000 m³ of air per hour are integrated in the building’s design. Sustainable ventilation of the swimming pool was designed by means of humidity regulation without compression refrigeration. The total heating requirement of the hotel is around 1.8 MW and is covered by a combined heat and power unit with two peak load boilers. Most of the electrical energy generated here is used in the building, and any surplus is fed into the local power grid. Any additional electrical energy needed is supplied via a medium-voltage connection to the grid and the customer's own transformer. All of the technical equipment, from sanitary and heating to the swimming pool facilities and building automation, was designed and implemented in accordance with current standards.

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Photos: Erik Groß}