Some time ago we invited Denis Oudendijk and Jan Korbes of mobile architecture firm VLNR to give a presentation at our Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. They inspired the audience talking about creating interesting new stuff from old tires. Another VLNR project is the Capsule Hotel, which aims to establish a brilliant piece of easy accessible ‘garbage architecture’. People can rent a floating capsule (suited for two persons) from a reasonable price of 35 euros per night. “James Bond meets Barbarella”, according to the creators. The Capsule Hotel will be floating in Antwerp till May 24.
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interested to know contact details of designer / architect / technology to start a capsule hotel in india.
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sanjay dutta
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[...] If that’s just too ordinary, you can stay in a section of drainage pipe, a former wine cask, or a floating pod that used to be part of an oil rig. If you’d like a sense of control as part of your hotel stay, [...]
[...] The fifth section of the book is called ‘Just Lose It’ and presents projects that “illustrate both the possibilities opened up by a loss of control or the breakdown of form in ever-eclectic constructions, and the potential of recycling waste materials for building construction”. Here, the Spacecraft authors emphasize the creative potential of waste materials and give insight in architectural responses to over-consumption. The chapter showcases many projects of Rotterdam-based recycling architects of REFUNC. Jan Korbes and Denis Oudendijk only use waste materials to design physical structures. Oftentimes their approach is not just ‘green design’, but it also brings forward new space typologies in which function follows form. Think of their famous capsule hotel. [...]
[...] of VLNR initiated another floating capsule hotel made out of recycled life saving modules. We reported about this initiative back in 2008. Their Capsule Hotel aims to establish a piece of easily [...]