The building’s skin: Expression and Colour.
We’re currently working on the architectural project of a multi-use indoor space that includes, amongst other services, a sports courts, spa, rock-climbing walls and different areas of entertainment and physical activity. It is a modest and versatile container building; simple, functional and economical. We need this building’s skin to be expressive and dynamic, with shapes that evoke movement and action without seeming fierce or unpleasant. After several tests, we hit upon a design that we found satisfying and which we are now sharing with you. As for its design, this time we thought it convenient to take one [...]
Design matters, a lot.
It’s confirmed; design has a quantifiable impact on customer experience. This has been the verdict of the international architecture and planning firm Gensler, after undertaking research to determine the impact that a good design has human beings. The results show that design is the key factor of differentiation, “between a good experience and a great one” and they reveal criteria to take into account when tackling the design of any project: The “quality” of the experiences in the “best designed” spaces, scored almost double than those in the “worst designed” ones. Single use spaces are obsolete. Places contemplated to accommodate [...]
The building’s skin: the contemporary evolution of the dome
The dome, a semi-spherical structure widely used in architecture since Roman times, is the key to a new project on which we are working. The classic dome, technically is the result of revolutionising an arch. The stresses that a traditional dome transmits to the pillars that sustain it are so complex, that its resolution has been one of the main challenges in the history of architecture, usually meaning the use of thick pillars and buttresses. With the advent of new technologies, the evolution of lightweight and easily manipulated self-supporting materials, (what in Amusement Logic we call the skin of the [...]
The building’s skin: an exercise in lyrical abstraction
The abstract pictorial shapes of different artistic innovations of the 20th century have an evident influence on contemporary architecture. We can easily recognize geometric abstraction in facades built on the basis of flat, monochrome, volume-less geometric shapes. Another more lyrical type of abstraction, is the base of the building’s skin that concerns us this month. When geometry gives way to formal freedom, without recognizable figures or symmetries, this is when good taste, an appreciation of balance and harmony and a good compositional criterion come into play. The façade that occupies us is in this sense a true work of art, [...]
The building’s skin: Harmony and efficiency
In the building’s skin that concerns us this month, we are seeking a polyvalent, scalable, beautiful and harmonious way of protecting or covering a simple rectangular-shaped building (irrespective of size). In art, in painting or sculpture as well as architecture, when we speak of beauty and harmony we have to talk about the golden ratio. The golden ratio or golden rule has been used by mathematicians to explain certain types of organic shapes that we find in nature, especially in a type of molluscs called Nautilus. This type of spiral shapes are called logarithmic spirals. Inspired on the Nautilus’s shape, [...]
Surround for a waterpark: multiple points of view for one sole building
We’re working on the architectural project of a water park surround, destined once again to become an architectural landmark in its environment. Today’s architectural monuments are not just intended to be admired from afar. Our goal is not to create just another emblematic building, recognizable from long distance: but to also shape and articulate the public space, offering citizens the possibility of evaluating and enjoying different points of view, different design variants. We understand that our buildings are not designed to be seen and admired from a single viewpoint, nor from only one direction. In effect, like a [...]
Surround for a water park: Rhythm and harmony
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Waterpark cover as a metaphor for water
One of the sectors in which Amusement Logic is specialised is that of Waterparks, in all their shapes and forms.
The new materials that are revolutionising traditional architecture
There’s no doubt that we’re at the height of the construction sector’s transformation: project management, augmented reality, BIM, ... but what we really should consider as a revolution is the development of new building materials and products. We’re not only talking about an aesthetic issue, but also improvements in the characteristics of the material, greater sustainability, cost reduction, safety, recycling ... and all this thanks to the research and development teams of institutes around the world and companies that are strongly committed to this revolution. Below we’ve outlined some of these materials, which will undoubtedly mark a milestone in construction. [...]
21st century zoos
In the future, zoos will be very different to how we know them today. For several decades, it has been shown that animals’ captivity affects their well-being and life expectancy and also, in some cases they suffer due to the terrible conditions in which they live. The increase of society’s awareness and respect for animals, means each day there’s greater concern for preserving and caring for their welfare, but we’re still far from this reality. With the aim of showing that there are other ways of building zoos, better adapted to the times in which we live, the Archstorming team [...]
