Showing posts with label Hotels 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hotels 3. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Hotel Design | Amphibious 1000 | The first luxury semisubmerged hotel resort | Qatar | Giancarlo Zema
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hotel Design | Inntel Hotel Amsterdam | Zaandam | Zaanstad | WAM architecten
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hotel Design | Westerdokseiland | Amsterdam | Bakers Architecten
The plan is a closed, rectangular volume which cuts are made, related to sight lines and street profiles from the city.This creates five volumes building designed by different architects subplan. The nearly 300-room hotel and marina for about 60 boats are designed by us in collaboration with architect Ben Loerakker, commissioned ASR NV Real Estate.........more
Thursday, March 31, 2011
cultural centre, concert hall and hotel | Volda InnOvata, Norway | Metropolitan Workshop
Metropolitan Workshop together with L2 Architects and Arup was awarded 2nd prize in this competition for a 12.000 sqm new cultural centre, concert hall and hotel.
Our proposal takes its starting point in the beautiful cultural landscape surrounding the site, and the stunning mountain scenery of western Norway. The team wanted to integrate this with a fascination with sound and music as architectural components.
The building was conceived as a rock outcrop in the landscape.
The composer John Cage once got stuck in a lift, “a perfect opportunity to hear a piece of music” he called it, as a humming, rumbling sound could be heard from the interior of the building. Architecture and buildings have an audible frequency, we imagine a building that can be played like an instrument.
Our proposal takes its starting point in the beautiful cultural landscape surrounding the site, and the stunning mountain scenery of western Norway. The team wanted to integrate this with a fascination with sound and music as architectural components.
The building was conceived as a rock outcrop in the landscape.
The composer John Cage once got stuck in a lift, “a perfect opportunity to hear a piece of music” he called it, as a humming, rumbling sound could be heard from the interior of the building. Architecture and buildings have an audible frequency, we imagine a building that can be played like an instrument.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Village Hotels Helath And Leisure | EPR Architects
The Village Hotel brand has been developed, and is being implemented across the country, between EPR Architects, DLA Architecture and 3D Reid. This leisure based hotel offers a combination of 120+ bedrooms, pool hall, fitness, aerobics, conference/meeting rooms, restaurant and pub areas, which continue to add to the portfolio of existing Village Hotels already in operation.EPR Architects are currently involved with live projects in Elstree, Farnborough and Solihull, along with assisting Village Hotels and Leisure with the acquisition process of other southern-based location opportunities.The contemporary style established with this new brand, tends to complement the business park location, albeit each location and site-specific demand dictates the need for any adaptation while retaining the essence of the design......more
Monday, January 31, 2011
Hotel Gault Montréal, Québec | yh2
Hotel Gault is the result of the conversion of a commercial building in Old Montreal into a thirty-room hotel. Uncluttered by ostentation, the hotel is defined by spaciousness, light and the balance between the architectural features. Elements of the original structures are brought to the fore: a vast open space on the ground floor, with cast-iron columns and huge windows. The new vocation is expressed within the Second Empire style building in a pure, contemporary language in which the raw materials (steel, concrete, stucco and wood) are balanced with the original elements. The thirty rooms reflect as many variations on the theme of accommodation. They are a sort of architectural laboratory in which individual occupants can modify their space at will, using a series of mobile structural elements: folding screens, draperies, large sliding panels, furniture on casters. The rooms have an open plan, based on a concept of nested subspaces......more
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mining Hotel | Chile | AATA Arquitectos
El PEÑON. II Region, Chile.
Project: 2005
Implementation: 2006
Area: 2500m2 Set in the desert, this project based on containers is organized by groups that generate intermediate largest module, repetitive, consisting of five containers of bedrooms plus one bathroom. This allows improved light and temperature conditions both inside the bedroom and in common areas and also helps to reduce the energy consumption for heating and ventilation.
One challenge was to move the existing containers to the new building, while the slaughter continued to run 24 hours. Shipping containers were used on two floors. It has a capacity for 320 people with 16 modules bathrooms.
A canvas stretched on a steel frame ensures the shadow to support the high daytime temperatures, protection against the cold desert night, and good circulation of air despite strong winds......more
Project: 2005
Implementation: 2006
Area: 2500m2 Set in the desert, this project based on containers is organized by groups that generate intermediate largest module, repetitive, consisting of five containers of bedrooms plus one bathroom. This allows improved light and temperature conditions both inside the bedroom and in common areas and also helps to reduce the energy consumption for heating and ventilation.
One challenge was to move the existing containers to the new building, while the slaughter continued to run 24 hours. Shipping containers were used on two floors. It has a capacity for 320 people with 16 modules bathrooms.
A canvas stretched on a steel frame ensures the shadow to support the high daytime temperatures, protection against the cold desert night, and good circulation of air despite strong winds......more
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Schwabinger Tor Hotel , Munich, Germany Designed By Scmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
The 40,000 square metres five-star hotel complex is situated in the newly developed Schwabinger Tor area along the northern part of the Leopoldstrasse in Munich, Germany. The challenge in the competition was to bring the architectural characteristics of Munich – with the life and atmosphere that the historic centre is known for – into the new and modern part of the city.
The design concept has its origin in three themes: the analysis of the historical city with its arches, vaults and arcades; a close relation to the masterplan with its boulevards, plazas and narrow streets; and a focus on human beings as well as the overall experience offered to the hotel guests.
The arcade motif is well known in Munich and emphasises the passage from a public plaza to the more private urban spaces. The arcade creates a semi-public space where people can sit and observe the urban life. The design integrates this architectural feature into the ground floor level of the hotel.
To the north and south of the building complex, two new urban plazas form natural entry points to the hotel and the conference centre. The entrances are accentuated in the building design by two impressive, golden vaults. For the hotel guests and the passers-by these very unique spaces offer a feeling of being part of something special. The vaults are fascinating, spacious and luxurious.
The hotel rooms have been designed to become unique. The integrated large and luxurious bathrooms appear as private spa-rooms with daylight and visual connection to the outside greenery, and the atmosphere in the hotel rooms become relaxing and impressive. The use of daylight is a general theme throughout the building complex. It offers the hotel guests a unique experience and sets a whole new standard for high-end hotels in general....more
The design concept has its origin in three themes: the analysis of the historical city with its arches, vaults and arcades; a close relation to the masterplan with its boulevards, plazas and narrow streets; and a focus on human beings as well as the overall experience offered to the hotel guests.
The arcade motif is well known in Munich and emphasises the passage from a public plaza to the more private urban spaces. The arcade creates a semi-public space where people can sit and observe the urban life. The design integrates this architectural feature into the ground floor level of the hotel.
To the north and south of the building complex, two new urban plazas form natural entry points to the hotel and the conference centre. The entrances are accentuated in the building design by two impressive, golden vaults. For the hotel guests and the passers-by these very unique spaces offer a feeling of being part of something special. The vaults are fascinating, spacious and luxurious.
The hotel rooms have been designed to become unique. The integrated large and luxurious bathrooms appear as private spa-rooms with daylight and visual connection to the outside greenery, and the atmosphere in the hotel rooms become relaxing and impressive. The use of daylight is a general theme throughout the building complex. It offers the hotel guests a unique experience and sets a whole new standard for high-end hotels in general....more
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hotel Design Ideas | Art'otel Hoxton London By Squire and Partners
Client: Aspirations Limited
Value: unspecified
Project Manager: Gear Construction
Planning Consultant: DP9
Structure: AKTServices: Hoare Lea
Status Planning consent: February 2010
Description
Squire and Partners gained planning consent in February 2010 for the flagship hotel for the art'otel brand, a contemporary collection of hotels in Europe which fuse architectural style with art-inspired interiors. The partially vacant site is on a prominent corner at the junction of Old Street, Rivington Street and Great Eastern Street, and lies within the South Shoreditch Conservation Area.The cylindrical shaped 18- storey building (plus four below ground) responds to the site and other bull-nosed buildings in the area, and allows the building to exploit panoramic views across London. The drum is horizontally separated into sections, with subtle slices cutting through the building skin providing openings which highlight views of the local and wider area. Contrasting local contexts have informed the design of the external skin of the building, which is clad in a bronze-coloured aluminium to complement the predominantly brick buildings which characterise the Conservation Area. The cladding is perforated with rectangles of various sizes which echo textile punch cards - textiles being an important industry in the area historically. Wrapping the building in a continuous perforated skin affords a sculptural quality, and controls light entering the building as well as views into and out of the rooms. The hotel will provide 350 rooms in addition to public areas including a gallery, arthouse cinema, spa and world-class restaurant on the double height top floor.....more at Squire and Partners
Value: unspecified
Project Manager: Gear Construction
Planning Consultant: DP9
Structure: AKTServices: Hoare Lea
Status Planning consent: February 2010
Description
Squire and Partners gained planning consent in February 2010 for the flagship hotel for the art'otel brand, a contemporary collection of hotels in Europe which fuse architectural style with art-inspired interiors. The partially vacant site is on a prominent corner at the junction of Old Street, Rivington Street and Great Eastern Street, and lies within the South Shoreditch Conservation Area.The cylindrical shaped 18- storey building (plus four below ground) responds to the site and other bull-nosed buildings in the area, and allows the building to exploit panoramic views across London. The drum is horizontally separated into sections, with subtle slices cutting through the building skin providing openings which highlight views of the local and wider area. Contrasting local contexts have informed the design of the external skin of the building, which is clad in a bronze-coloured aluminium to complement the predominantly brick buildings which characterise the Conservation Area. The cladding is perforated with rectangles of various sizes which echo textile punch cards - textiles being an important industry in the area historically. Wrapping the building in a continuous perforated skin affords a sculptural quality, and controls light entering the building as well as views into and out of the rooms. The hotel will provide 350 rooms in addition to public areas including a gallery, arthouse cinema, spa and world-class restaurant on the double height top floor.....more at Squire and Partners
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Brillare-Dining and party space For Risonare Hotel, Japan By Klein-Dytham
Brillare is a dining and party space, an addition to Risonare wedding resort where the Leaf Chapel is located. As you approach the hotel lobby, you will come across a shiny box surrounded by tall tree, and that shiny box is, Brillare.
The Leaf Chapel was designed to create a sensory space for the bride to give a precious moment to lift the veil. Now, Risonare wedding resort needed a space to celebrate that precious day.
The main space is built around a single 18m long table, with 22 chairs on each side. The table gradually becomes narrow starting from head to back. By using this effect, the bride and the groom who is sitting at the head of the table can see everyone and the table seems to go on forever. On the other hand the guests can see the happy couple larger and closer.
The interiors of the room including the furniture are all white while a beautiful nature gathers across the whole length of the room on both sides by sliding glass panels. An ornamental pattern frets the ceiling and frames the happy couple. With these techniques, the room dignifies and adorns the wedding feast. A brilliantly mirrored finish lets the exterior dissolve in the background. At night, the room appears to float with a pure white form glittering in the darkness of the forest....more
The Leaf Chapel was designed to create a sensory space for the bride to give a precious moment to lift the veil. Now, Risonare wedding resort needed a space to celebrate that precious day.
The main space is built around a single 18m long table, with 22 chairs on each side. The table gradually becomes narrow starting from head to back. By using this effect, the bride and the groom who is sitting at the head of the table can see everyone and the table seems to go on forever. On the other hand the guests can see the happy couple larger and closer.
The interiors of the room including the furniture are all white while a beautiful nature gathers across the whole length of the room on both sides by sliding glass panels. An ornamental pattern frets the ceiling and frames the happy couple. With these techniques, the room dignifies and adorns the wedding feast. A brilliantly mirrored finish lets the exterior dissolve in the background. At night, the room appears to float with a pure white form glittering in the darkness of the forest....more
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wellness Hotel Sotelia | Podčetrtek, Slovenija Enota
Plečnik Award 2006
Piranesi Award 2006
Golden Pencil 2006
Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 - shortlisted
Wellness Hotel Sotelia fills the gap between twoexisting hotels, both of them not hiding theirdifferent architectural origins. New hotel is not trying to summarize samples from nearby structures but rather clearly distances itself from the built environment and connects, instead, with its natural surroundings.
In design process primary concern was to avoidimmense building mass, like the one suggested in the client's brief, which would have blocked the lastremaining view of the forest. The volume is broken up into small units arranged in landscape-hugging tiers. As a result, the four storey 150-room building appears much lower and smaller then this description would suggest.
The specific shape of the hotel was dictated by thefolds in the landscape. The unique structures offerspasser-by some strong spatial experiences: from the front, the building is perceived as a two-dimensional set composed of parallel planes placed one behind the other; a walk around the hotel reveals entirely different views of the timber facade, from a plane vertical wooden slats to a rhythmic arrangement of balconies and wooden terraces.
project: Hotel Sotelia
type: invited competition, first prize
year: 2003
status: completed 2006
size: 13.300 M2
budget: 12.000.000 EUR
client: Terme Olimia
location: Podčetrtek, Slovenia
architecture: enota
project team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Petra Ostanek, Anže Zalaznik, Eva Matjašič, Darko Vasiljevič, Mojca Žerjav
landscape architecture: Bruto
structural engineering: Elea iC
mechanical services: Proinstal
electrical planning: Elita ib
photo: Miran Kambič
Piranesi Award 2006
Golden Pencil 2006
Mies van der Rohe Award 2007 - shortlisted
Wellness Hotel Sotelia fills the gap between twoexisting hotels, both of them not hiding theirdifferent architectural origins. New hotel is not trying to summarize samples from nearby structures but rather clearly distances itself from the built environment and connects, instead, with its natural surroundings.
In design process primary concern was to avoidimmense building mass, like the one suggested in the client's brief, which would have blocked the lastremaining view of the forest. The volume is broken up into small units arranged in landscape-hugging tiers. As a result, the four storey 150-room building appears much lower and smaller then this description would suggest.
The specific shape of the hotel was dictated by thefolds in the landscape. The unique structures offerspasser-by some strong spatial experiences: from the front, the building is perceived as a two-dimensional set composed of parallel planes placed one behind the other; a walk around the hotel reveals entirely different views of the timber facade, from a plane vertical wooden slats to a rhythmic arrangement of balconies and wooden terraces.
project: Hotel Sotelia
type: invited competition, first prize
year: 2003
status: completed 2006
size: 13.300 M2
budget: 12.000.000 EUR
client: Terme Olimia
location: Podčetrtek, Slovenia
architecture: enota
project team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Petra Ostanek, Anže Zalaznik, Eva Matjašič, Darko Vasiljevič, Mojca Žerjav
landscape architecture: Bruto
structural engineering: Elea iC
mechanical services: Proinstal
electrical planning: Elita ib
photo: Miran Kambič
Friday, September 3, 2010
Michael Sorkin Studio | A Seven Star Hotel In Tianjin, China |
Tianjin, China, 2009
Credits: Michael Sorkin,
Makoto Okazaki, Luoyi Yin, Yanqing Sun
Ryan Culligan, Qi Su
The hotel we have designed takes the form a small tower. Each room commands superb views of the lake from its glassy interior and its green balcony. Atop the hotel is a dazzling restaurant and bar, offering panoramic vistas. Unusual in form, this intimate, yet expressive, building promises to be a vivid marker on the skyline and powerful image to attract the world to its doors.
We have also proposed to locate the hotel and club at opposite ends of a curved, sandy beach. During the summer, this will be a place for sunbathing and swimming and in winter, a spot for romantic walks. By creating this waterfront condition, the villas arranged along the beach will gain special value and we can imagine the shared social life of hotel guests, occupants of these beach houses, and members of the club. We envision a luxurious spa, private dining, meeting rooms, sports facilities, bar, and the other amenities of a first-rate club.
This beach-front complex - with its unique forms and facilities - will surely become one of Tianjin's places to be......pictures at Michael Sorkin Studio
Credits: Michael Sorkin,
Makoto Okazaki, Luoyi Yin, Yanqing Sun
Ryan Culligan, Qi Su
The hotel we have designed takes the form a small tower. Each room commands superb views of the lake from its glassy interior and its green balcony. Atop the hotel is a dazzling restaurant and bar, offering panoramic vistas. Unusual in form, this intimate, yet expressive, building promises to be a vivid marker on the skyline and powerful image to attract the world to its doors.
We have also proposed to locate the hotel and club at opposite ends of a curved, sandy beach. During the summer, this will be a place for sunbathing and swimming and in winter, a spot for romantic walks. By creating this waterfront condition, the villas arranged along the beach will gain special value and we can imagine the shared social life of hotel guests, occupants of these beach houses, and members of the club. We envision a luxurious spa, private dining, meeting rooms, sports facilities, bar, and the other amenities of a first-rate club.
This beach-front complex - with its unique forms and facilities - will surely become one of Tianjin's places to be......pictures at Michael Sorkin Studio
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Baiyun International Center of Guang Zhou | Ney + Partners
Concept
The new Baiyun International Center of Guang Zhou (South China) is located along the Baiyun Avenue and faces the Baiyun Mountain. The project consists of five buildings, of which 3 congress centers and two hotels. Between these buildings, green connections link the project to the surrounding nature.
Specific features
Four out of the five buildings are in reinforced concrete. The structural grid is 18m by 18m. The central building is realised in steel. With its 150m length, 40m width and 45m height, it shows two cantilvers of 24m. Two steel truss beams are used in the longitudinal direction to support the floors, the cantilevers and the transmition of the seismic loadings to the shear walls. The so-called "eco-bridges" are bridges of 300m to 500m long snaking between the buildings and overcrossing the Baiyun Avenue. These bridges are made of reinforced concrete and carry one meter of soil and plantations used by the landscape architects to bring the nature into the city. The U-shaped cross-section has variable width. The supports are placed every 18m and are circular steel columns filled with concrete. The maximum span is 58m.
Pictures here
The new Baiyun International Center of Guang Zhou (South China) is located along the Baiyun Avenue and faces the Baiyun Mountain. The project consists of five buildings, of which 3 congress centers and two hotels. Between these buildings, green connections link the project to the surrounding nature.
Specific features
Four out of the five buildings are in reinforced concrete. The structural grid is 18m by 18m. The central building is realised in steel. With its 150m length, 40m width and 45m height, it shows two cantilvers of 24m. Two steel truss beams are used in the longitudinal direction to support the floors, the cantilevers and the transmition of the seismic loadings to the shear walls. The so-called "eco-bridges" are bridges of 300m to 500m long snaking between the buildings and overcrossing the Baiyun Avenue. These bridges are made of reinforced concrete and carry one meter of soil and plantations used by the landscape architects to bring the nature into the city. The U-shaped cross-section has variable width. The supports are placed every 18m and are circular steel columns filled with concrete. The maximum span is 58m.
Pictures here
Saturday, February 27, 2010
rhiza A + D | Timberline Lodge | New Winter Entrance
The historic Timberline Lodge has a new winter entrance designed by Portland-based architecture firm rhiza A + D.
In 1956 a temporary winter entrance, made of corrugated metal, was first constructed to combat the high snow drifts that accumulate at the entrance every year. It continued to make an appearance every winter until now.
The new entrance is a reticulated structure that can be assembled at the onset of each year’s snow season and disassembled the following spring.
The entrance has been designed to withstand the snow and wind loads encountered on Mount Hood, Oregon.
Constructed of a series of parabolic arches, each profile of the entrance is waterjet-cut from half-inch-thick aluminum plate. Each arch is composed of three segments to allow for efficient handling and storage. Each arch module is 30 inches wide, reaching 20 ft across by 20 ft high at the front facade.
To support the double skin of translucent polycarbonate panels, each profile is interlaced with continuously welded ribs. The translucent polycarbonate panels are lightweight, durable and replaceable.
In 1956 a temporary winter entrance, made of corrugated metal, was first constructed to combat the high snow drifts that accumulate at the entrance every year. It continued to make an appearance every winter until now.
The new entrance is a reticulated structure that can be assembled at the onset of each year’s snow season and disassembled the following spring.
The entrance has been designed to withstand the snow and wind loads encountered on Mount Hood, Oregon.
Constructed of a series of parabolic arches, each profile of the entrance is waterjet-cut from half-inch-thick aluminum plate. Each arch is composed of three segments to allow for efficient handling and storage. Each arch module is 30 inches wide, reaching 20 ft across by 20 ft high at the front facade.
To support the double skin of translucent polycarbonate panels, each profile is interlaced with continuously welded ribs. The translucent polycarbonate panels are lightweight, durable and replaceable.
Project Details
Completed October of 2009
Architect rhiza A+D
Structural Engineer - Madden & Baughman Engineering, Inc
Lighting Design - Luma Lighting Design
General Contractor - Hoffman Structures, Inc.
Fabricator - Innovative Metal Design, LLC
Owner - US Forest Service
Fundraising Organisation - Friends of Timberline
Lodge Operator - RLK & Co
More at ARPLUS
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Unique Boutique Hotel | The Azucar Hotel | Veracruz, Mexico
Named for the sugar cane grown in its home state of Veracruz, the Azucar was conceived by hotelier Carlos Couturier, founder of some of Mexico’s hippest resort properties. For the Acuzar he decided on an almost anti-design back-to-basics theme that finds its expression in an airy, breezy feeling. The hotel’s 20 low-slung bungalows, all in an intense white-on-white colour scheme, inspire visions of loose cotton clothing, sandals and the easiest of schedules.
The Azucar Hotel is reachable via two airports both in close proximity to the hotel. The airport of Veracruz is located to the south (approximately 2 and a half hours from the hotel). The Poza Rica airport located to the north is (approximately 1 and a half hours from the hotel).
A private Cessna plane (maximum capacity 4 people) is available for hire upon request.
Images at neohotels
The Azucar Hotel is reachable via two airports both in close proximity to the hotel. The airport of Veracruz is located to the south (approximately 2 and a half hours from the hotel). The Poza Rica airport located to the north is (approximately 1 and a half hours from the hotel).
A private Cessna plane (maximum capacity 4 people) is available for hire upon request.
Images at neohotels
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Resort-Singita Lebombo | Kruger National Park, South Africa | OMM Design Workshop | Cécile and Boyd’s
More pictures hereSingita Lebombo takes its cues from nature’s finest engineers through a design concept inspired by the position and structure of nests, dens, eyries and lairs.
Text :Mandy Allen
Location: Kruger National Park, South Africa
Architects :Andrew Makin and Janina Masojada, OMM Design Workshop
Interior designers:Cécile & Boyd’s
Photographs: Ken Hayden
Sunday, August 9, 2009
7800 Çesme Residences & Hotel | Turkey | Emre Arolat Architects
More pictures here
Çesme has reached a multiply increasing summer population with touristy motivation of the last decade. This unpredictable growth, like all lately explored villages of Mediterranean and Aegean region, makes an inevitable transformation both sociologically and physically in Çesme.
The Çesme 7800 project was developed throughout a design tendency which is posed problematic on the new identities and mass that grew out of this new situation, in the context of the effect on the existing structure.
Main mass has been made closer to the border of the road. So that the frontal large beach and the natural environment has left as is exists as possible. The linear block of 5 stories, has been transformed double sided by an internal street on which both vertical and horizontal circulation is organized.
Instead of being self-centralized and prominent by visual structural form, attractive and awaiting to gain its power by this kind of attention, what is aimed in the project is a kind of structure that tends to hide behind the landscape layer which covers it and by this way choose to get rid of all the burden of concepts that might be defined as style, taste and genre of architecture.
Text and images from: Emre Arolat Architects
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Hotel Design | Seeko Hotel | Bordeaux, France | Atelier d’architecture King Kong
More pictures at Arthur Pequin
Architects: Atelier d’architecture King Kong
Location: Bordeaux, France
Construction year: 2007
Project Team: Paul Marion, Jean-Christophe Masnada, Frederic Neau and Laurent Portejoie, associate architects + Olivier Oslislo, Fontaneda Calzada David, Max Hildebrant, assistant architects
Structure Engineering: ETBA
Acoustics Engineering: IdB acoustic
Fluids Engineering: Math Engineering
Constructed Area: 2,300 sqm
Graphic Artists: Philippe Giraud (signage, tapestry), Julie Soistier (facade screen printing)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Rig Resort | Gulf Of Mexico | Morris Architects
There are approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico varying in size, depth and mobility that will be decommissioned within the next century. If a deck on one of these rigs is about 20,000 square feet, then there is potentially 80 million square feet of programmable space just off the coast of the United States.
The current method for rig removal is explosion, which costs millions of dollars and destroys massive amounts of aquatic life. What if these rigs were recommissioned as exclusive resort islands? Could the Gulf be America’s “Dubai” and the rig the artificial island on which to build it? This project examines the possibilities of creating a self-sufficient, eco-friendly high-end resort experience in our own backyard - the Gulf of Mexico.
Architect: Morris Architects
Staff:
Yoonah Chang
Dallas Felder
Sandra Guerrero
Melanie Herz
Paul Kweton
Shawn Lutz
John McWilliams
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