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Best concepts for future hotel designs unveiled
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Toronto-based design and architecture firm named HOK, worked on a mobile, self-sustaining hotel dubbed Driftcraft. (Radical Innovation/-)
If we asked you what hotels will look like in the future, what would you imagine?
Some of the world's designers and architects have revealed their brilliant ideas.
Toronto-based design and architecture firm HOK worked on a mobile, self-sustaining hotel dubbed Driftcraft. If you happen to be a guest, imagine being picked up by a drone-powered mobile hotel room that can accomodate two people for a two- or three-day flight, allowing you to roam or touch locations that can’t be reached from traditional hotels. HOK has previously worked on hotels such as Lotte New York Palace Hotel’s Jewel Suite.
“Guests don’t just go to a hotel and stay on property anymore. They want to get out and experience what the place is all about,” said HOK senior project designer Ian Rolston.
MM Architects Designers & Planners also has a unique project in mind: a contemporary, modular-take on the modern treehouse. Dubbed Nesting, it is designed to be a new way to interact with nature in an urban environment. The concept involves modular constructs raised above the ground where people can meet, work, sleep and live, as well as interact with more natural surroundings. The idea is not just being self-sustainable, but also being able to support itself financially.
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“In the next 20 years, most of us will be living in cities and not so much in nature anymore,” said MM architect and designer Marc Mussche. “Our basic concern in hospitality is the new urban landscape. Cities have to spend a lot to keep parks open. You can use Nest Inn to give to the state or the city the possibility to recover some financing.”
These two ideas are the finalists of Radical Innovation Award, a contest for designers and architects around the world wanting to submit their concepts for the hotels of the future. The competition has been hosted every year since 2007 by global hospitality development consultants, The John Hardy Group.
This year's two finalists for the professional category will be judged on Oct. 5 before an audience of hotel developers, owners, executives and designers, who will award a Grand Prize of US$10,000 to the winner. They borrowed inspiration from drones and city parks to come up with their pitches, and both designs present a hotel that can be placed almost anywhere, allowing people to interact with their surroundings.
Another interesting entry in the contest was submitted by Juan Orduz fom the University of Nevada Las Vegas who won the student category. Dubbed Space View Inn, Orduz envisioned "an expanded truss system to give the hotel guests more space to roam while orbiting the earth", reported cnn.com. The concept also includes a lottery system, allowing people from all economic backgrounds to be able to travel to space.
Orduz will present his design on stage during the awards ceremony and at the New Museum in New York. As winner, he will receive a cash prize that includes a two-year full scholarship to earn a Master’s degree in hospitality design. (tif/kes)
