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This proposal attempts an answer to the question of how to receive a foreigner into the most burdened urban environment. In conditions of abnormal density and lack of esthetical identity, my proposal is inspired by dynamism, which emerges often through chaotic consolidation of a functional and esthetic discontinuity. The hospitality provides for the visitor, protection against a shower of sensations from optical acoustic disharmony of the city, creating a controlled esthetical shell. This is achieved by inverting the typical morphology of a hotel. The rooms face the inside (atrium) leaving the corridors on the outside of the building. On the exterior the challenge was to break the dissonance of the city, preserving its primary structural form, the cube. The cube offers four facades-canvases, through which the image of the building is continually transformed. The wrapping of these facades is a double glass shell, one and a half meters thick, which at times fills with mist conveying the shapes of clouds that the density of the city conceals, at times projects artistic events happening in the city, and at other times is used as a space for art exhibitions itself. On the interior the mist entertains the visitor on his monotonous route to the rooms. The shell keeps its continuity without interruptions of functional openings. The four vertical edges of the cube open to provide space for the main entrance and stairwells. The vertical edge of the main entrance and the one ...