Renowned British architecture firmFoster + Partnershas just completed the conceptual design for a circular resort in Saudi Arabia.
Each hotel suite breaks away from the continuous circular path and is covered with a tropical timber roof.
Foster + Partners explains that environmental responsibility was an important consideration in their design for Ummahat AlShaykh Hotel 12.
Aside from the technical sustainable requirements, the designers wanted the project to be inherently environmentally friendly.
When we looked at the islands our approach was to have a light touch.
As light as we could possibly be, says Gerard Evenden of Foster + Partners.
The firm wanted to introduce tourism to this remote site with little to no harm to the natural environment.
How do you bring people to these places where nobody has been before?
And how do you bring people into those places without damaging anything?
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