MEGA DUNES ECO LODGE

Location: Abu Dhabi, AD, United Arab Emirates Year: 2020
Team: Lautaro Araneo, Camila Carvajal & Isidro Roch.
Competition: Bee Breeders
Selected Project

The lodges design is inspired by local architecture, finding in their Jaimas the most accurate example: Itinerant architecture, which is modified along with the desert. The intelligence of the jaima is its assembly and simplicity: composed of two elements, a structure and an envelope. These two elements are essential to survive in the desert, and we use them in order to create a system that will work for the different typologies.
The system consists of a modular steel structure which allows a fast and light construction of the framing, and different modular enclosures and furnitures to fill the spatial frame as requested. The dimension of 3,00x3,00 meters allows to generate the different programs with flexibility, using the 0,75m panels for divisions, sliding doors or fixed furniture.