Cala Llonga Hotel: Silver, Student Designs

  

Contact: Patricia Belton Oliver, 626.396.2344; tmoran@artcentr.edu

Designers: Denise Joan Assad, Art Center College of Design

A tour of this prototype boutique hotel stretched over a gorge in Ibiza, Spain is a flight through a tensile membrane structure based, like Antonio Gaudi's work, on gravity and suspension. The transparency and organic shape allow the hotel to dissolve into the exotic environment of this chic Mediterranean island.