M+N Architecture

New Amenity Center

New Amenity Center
Zirku Island, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
2014
Client: confidential
Performed services: concept design
In collaboration with: Altorath Engineering Consultants
Status: ongoing
The design of the amenity centre takes the typical oil and gas structures
with their intrinsic engineering complexity as well as engineering beauty as a reference.
The challenge was to take the truss beam and elevate it
to a high architectural value, making it become a real icon of the project
and exposing it to the view and to the understanding of the viewer.
This truss element gives rhythm to the facades articulating
the elevations with solid and transparent cladding.