A determinant building’s skin (+ video)
Modules variable in size and interior pattern, which rotate on the vertical axis, make the building climate-adaptable.
Floating constructions, sustainable trend
Qatar, the venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, plans to build 16 floating hotels.
The building’s skin: controlling the entry of solar radiation
Through the innovative use of the classic diaphragm system, we offer a sustainable solution for temperature regulation inside buildings.
A light-regulating building skin
A building’s skin acts as an intermediary between its interior and exterior. It fulfils different functions, such as favouring privacy in the case of homes, or also regulating the entry of light for climatic reasons. However, it is very expensive to heat, cool or ventilate homes and architectural spaces. In fact, buildings with huge glass façades are those that require the most energy for these tasks and therefore the ones that dissipate and waste it the most. The skin we’re proposing is a solution to this question. It’s a modular articulated system, which allows a rational control of light entry. [...]
Mobility in architecture: the best funicular in the world
Located in the town of Mogán, on the south coast of Gran Canaria, Hotel Riosol is a hotel complex with more than 40 years of existence. It rests on the slopes of a mountain of solidified lava, almost 200 metres above sea level. In 2018, it underwent rehabilitation and amongst other renovations, it replaced the old funicular with a new one, designed by the Navarrese architectural studio Atelier Lopez Neira Ciaurri. Well, this device designed to overcome the great difference in levels and allow access to the different hotel floors, has been given the International Annual Project of the Year [...]
Triangular panels to exercise freedom of design.
Throughout our existence, at Amusement Logic we have studied new technologies with the aim of applying them to our designs and creations. We’re currently investigating the construction possibilities of triangular modular panels made of lightweight plastic or metallic materials. This system allows the creation of organic skins, (freeform skins), by joining triangular flat panels, connected through straight bars instead of curved molded elements. The former are more efficient, due to their simplicity, than the second fasteners. In this case, however, with triangular shapes we obtain curved-looking surfaces for the building's skin. Since three points always generate a plane [...]
King Abdulaziz Centre, by Snøhetta.
In 2007, the Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta won the competition to design a centre destined for the promotion and development of culture in Saudi Arabia. Promoted by the world's largest oil company, the Saudi Arabian company Aramco, the King Abdulaziz Center opened on December 1, 2017. A year later, Time magazine included it in the list of the 100 best places in the world to visit. The complex was located in the city of Dhahran, next to the symbolic "prosperity well", where oil was first found in the Arab state. It occupies 80,000 m2 and is formed by five volumes. [...]
Responses for unique residential architecture.
More often than not, our job consists of responding to questions, both technical and creative. On this occasion we’re asking ourselves the following: How to transfer ideas and concepts of prestigious emblematic architecture to the world of residential architecture, without detriment to its aesthetic value and without making it unaffordable for the majority of buyers? How to facilitate the middle-class with access to unique constructions, which reinvent and adapt those forms of a more avant-garde architecture? Whilst it’s true that the kind of architecture to which we refer materialises only in large-budget buildings, with the new construction systems that we’re [...]
«The future is human»: Ronan Vaspart, MIPIM’s director.
We talked with the director of the Marché International des Professionnels de l'Immobilier, or MIPIM, the international real estate fair for the office, residential, retail, health, sports, logistics and industrial sectors, which takes place annually in March in Cannes, France. Ronan Vaspart tells us about the approach that will guide what will be the 31st edition of the fair, in 2020, and that it will have as its motto "The future is human". “The Future is Human tries to ensure that people - humans - remain at the centre of our business (...), and how to take care of their [...]
The extension of the Now Onyx Hotel by Amusement Logic has been inaugurated.
Hotel Now Onyx, located in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, formally began its activity on November 23, 2016. Three years later, after the expansion work that Amusement Logic carried out, its new facilities called Now Onyx Splash has been inaugurated. The event was attended by the President of the Republic, Danilo Medina, his Minister of Tourism, Francisco Javier García, as well as Enrique Martinón, president of the Martinón Group, owner of the complex, and other authorities of the country's tourism, business, social and government sector. The «protagonist element» of this new inaugurated area, according to Mr. Martinón, is «a large pool [...]
