Hotel Experimenta

A hotel usually gives you everything you need to get through your day. A bed, a bathroom and preferably a bit of food. So theoretically you don't have to get out of the hotel building to survive.

With this idea Dutch designer Jan Konings created Hotel Experimenta. It's consists out of just one room, but that one room has a view.

What appears to be a blue/green colored box with a vague purpose turns out to be a hotel. As Konings himself calls it "an inverted hotel", you can't stay in to get your breakfast; you have to get out.

The moment you make your reservation for Hotel Experimenta the streets turn into the hotel corridors, the city becomes the lobby and the city's inhabitants facilitate the activities and guest services.

As it's name says, Hotel Experimenta is an experience. It's part of a design exhibition in Amsterdam which is stretched throughout the city, and reservations are welcome until 2 November.

Hotel Experimenta

-jdh

Travelodge: revolutionizing your average hotel

Take a look at this photograph for a moment.

It looks like an average harbor or other place where big amounts of shipping containers are stacked, not? Well nothing is what it seems because this is actually a hotel in the making.

Yes indeed, with the use of shipping containers this Travelodge hotel is the first one to be built so incredibly fast. In fact, it was built in just 20 days. Located in Uxbridge, a London outskirt, this hotel offers a rough 120 rooms rated at 50 pounds each.

Some minor point about the thing is that the containers are brand new, it would have been fabulous if they had been used before. But anyway, Travelodge says that it is possible to melt the containers to steel if it's broken down. But why isn't it possible to reuse them just as your regular container? Hmmm.. anyway, here's a picture of what it looks like right now.

Looks pretty cool, especially if you keep in mind that the thing has been built in under a month time!

-jdh