Some buildings seem to caress the air that surrounds them. It is precisely the desire to caress the breeze, to inhabit the heights and enjoy views over the sea’s horizon that guides the design process of the architectural project we’re presenting to you this month from Amusement Logic: a new 50-storey mixed-use building. The complex houses a hotel and a shopping centre on the first floors and a series of residential flats on the rest. We have also included a complex internal infrastructure that provides space for landscaping, aquatic leisure areas, cafés and restaurants, gyms and other sports facilities, as well as covered parking and other amenities.
In addition, we developed the tower’s attractive design to incorporate the sustainability trends demanded by today’s environmental conditions. To do this, we designed shapes that help to channel the winds and pass them more efficiently through small, quiet wind turbines integrated into the building. These turbines generate the electricity needed to run the tower. A battery system on the lower floors stores the energy to ensure the self-sufficiency of our architectural model. At the same time, the flats are designed to make efficient use of the area’s most abundant natural resources: the ocean and the sun.
Finally, given this geographical location by the sea, the lighting study of our architectural project is inspired by the practical functionality of lighthouses. So, in the same way that the specific cadence of lighthouses helps ships to identify the city and its port from a distance, the lighting of the tower casts its particular and unmistakable silhouette into the night for the same purpose. The building, whose image is in itself iconic during the day, becomes an emblematic and practical element at night, symbolising the shelter and security of the city.
