Congress Centre in Lanzarote
Architecture has the capacity of building a landscape and in this sense the new Congress Palace builds up a new open space overlooking the sea. Atlántida is the name a mythic place in the Atlantic Ocean and also the name of our proposal, an open public crater surrounded by an evolving architecture, safe from the strong local winds and open to the sea view. There is a strong relation between the half moon shape of the building and the geometry of nature.
A circular atrium filters the outside and the inside. High brise-soleils shape the entrance as wide open doors. Behind them the lobby links the different halls in continuity. Hall 1, for 900 seats, is designed as a versatile room with three tribunes that provide different possibilities.
From the outside the cornice is broken up intending a low and wide volume that embraces the circular open space. It is built with different opacity blue-green glass of the nearby salt mines.
