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Interiors About half-way through the design of the building exteriors we were asked by Starwood (Sher

Dynamic The movement of people as they arrive and leave the airport, the tension created between soli

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The shell is curved around a subframe of pultruded structural pro.

Building as large scale Product Design The perception of the building, often seen as a whole despite

Tensile Structures Between each block of rooms the emergency staircases, also seen from the airport s

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Fa?ade On the open (west) side these blocks of rooms articulate the fa?ade in an irregular sequence o

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Membrane We were looking for a seamless shell to fold around the functional volumes of the buildings.

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Guest Room Blocks The layouts of the rooms are organised in seven bays separated by courtyards which

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Text description provided by the architects. King Roselli Architetti was commissioned to design the e