Considered one of the most contemporary four-star hotel in Portugal, the Axis Viana Business & SPA Hotel is located in the historic town Viana Do Castelo. The variety of landscapes and scenery of the well-known "capital of folklore" - surrounded by the Lima River, by the Atlantic beaches, mountains, and other cities of the Minho in the north of the country) - inspired the construction of a building composed of overlapping volumes, but open.
The dynamics of such a style arquitectonico, erected thanks to a steel structure, with two cores of movement in concrete, gives the work the impression of having been built with parts from fitting, as the famous Lego toy. The steel structure adopted allowed to treat the various elements as if they were stacked blocks and offset in the X and Y axes. The coating in dark color accentuates this delay of different blocks,