120 Room Hotel | Lelystad | The Netherlands | Allard Architecure

Located within a leisure area just outside the new town of Lelystad, The Netherlands, a contemporary hotel is created using technological principles from the rigging of a sail boat.

In the nearby marina, the slender masts of the boats use stabilising rigging ropes to enable the structural mast to resist large loads from the wind and weight of the sails. With the same principle, anchored in the surroundings, tensile cables are attached near the top of the tower and run parallel with the concrete shaft to its base. This not only increases the loading capability of the tower, but also creates a tensile structure that is offset from the existing concrete core. ...........more