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168 FLORASKIN BY GÜNTHER DOMENIG & EILFRIED HUTH Year 1971 Status Project Material Acrylic Glass Waste Scale 1:1000 Model maker Andreas Marlovits Florian Hofreither In 1971, Günther Domenig and Eilfried Huth were invited to take part in a competition for a hotel complex on the coastline of Morocco. The competition was held by the German Hermann R. Grub and the Maghreb Consulting GmbH. The main theme of the competition was: vacation is recovery and adventure. The seaside hotel was required to be able to offer 30.000 guests apartments, shared community areas, basic infrastructure and an airport.1 On a total length of 30km, Domenig and Huth designed a building made of a main structure and a climatic shell. The main structure, which was to hold the apartments as well as the infrastructure, consisted of a system of prefabricated elements, such as beams and ties, that could be reworked into different combinations and placed into a variety of landscapes. The elements were expandable, replaceable and reducible. The outer shell was designed as an artificial landscape that took the form of hanging gardens that covered the main structure.2 1 Zach, Juliane (Ed.) (1996): Eilfried Huth: Architekt. Varietät als Prinzip. Berlin: Gebrüder Mann Verlag. 50. 2 Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst (Ed.) (1991): Günther Domenig: Werkbuch. Salzburg, Wien: Residenz Verlag. 66.