The unique environment requires a unique product in the form of a hotel, tat is built up as a place to experience a singular, unforgettable atmosphere. This hotel is a place to enjoy the dream of pure "Cubaness". The urban planning, architecture, landscape design, scenography and interior design are staged as an environment that is unique in the whole Caribbean and becomes a benchmark for future developments in and around Cuba.
The design of this project was motivated by the desire to combine high quality hotel enviromment with the maximum of character possible and the goal to go one step beyond the hotel of the 21st century.
For the arrangement of the hotelrooms, a special software was developed. The main criteria for the optimization was to give every room a view to the sea, or, if not possible, a larger area in front of the balcony. Starting with a random layout, the optimization process used a genetic algorithm that analyzed and changed the hotel layout over many iterations.