Architects LAVA have designed a hotel room as part of a research project in collaboration with Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) in Stuttgart, Germany.
The room includes anti-jet-lag lighting and a media display window.
The architects describe the room as “a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body.”
Photos: copyright Gee-Ly.
Here’s some text from LAVA:
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LAVA designs Future Hotel showcase
As part of a research collaboration with the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) LAVA has designed the Future Hotel Showcase Room, a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body.
The Future Hotel forms part of the IAO Inhaus2, a program that focuses on meeting the expectations and requirements of hotel guests using tomorrow’s technology.
Blurring the definition between technology and interior space, the showcase room features the latest innovations in the fields of media and visual communication, along with prototypical products developed by renowned manufacturers.
Human comfort is of paramount concern in the Future Hotel Room. Technology has been designed to function almost invisibly in the background, whilst providing the opportunity for individual control of media, light and interior climate. Some of the room’s features include anti-jet-lag lights, active comfort bed, personal spa area, intelligent mirror and a large fully integrated media display window.
In creating the Future Hotel Room, LAVA has designed a spatial continuum, integrating each area of the team’s investigation into one single gesture, characterised by fluid transitions and accentuated singular edges. The free-form outer skin creates an infrastructure that becomes the interface between technology and the human body, and a combination of soft and hard materials offers a well-balanced transition between functional spaces.
Applying parametric design methods and semi-automated production techniques allowed LAVA an almost real-time translation of the original design concept. The collaboration between the project partners also generated many new insights and discoveries, many of which will be implemented in LAVA’s upcoming hotel projects in the U.A.E. The vision of the Future Hotel Showcase could thus become a reality sooner than expected.
Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse and Alexander Rieck founded LAVA - Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, a worldwide operating network, just more than one year ago. The partners were responsible as associate architects for world-recognised structures such as the Water cube in Beijing and the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany. A couple of weeks ago, they unveiled the design for the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Abu Dhabi.
Project Team LAVA:
Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck with
Kadri Kaldam, Martin Volkle, Jan Saggau
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Posted by Rose Etherington
November 18th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Nice….nice….so much better than Zaha’s room in Puerta America Hotel….
November 18th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Why is the future always shiny white plastic?
November 19th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Yep, Nicely done boys
November 19th, 2008 at 2:10 am
how do you know this kind of shape or form mean ‘future’?
how do you know this kind of space is good for being’s bodies?
November 19th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Fabulous!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Wow…it certainly saves lots of space..a totally new concept!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:51 am
ah.. excuse me.. but, where’s the loo please?
Use the bath tub Madame !
November 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am
yeah, this one makes more sense than Zaha’s.
November 19th, 2008 at 7:36 am
cool stuff…what’s the interior walls made of, may i ask?
November 19th, 2008 at 8:33 am
funny how lava and zaha rhym with blabla
November 19th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Looks like a lot of promotional spin to me - what does it actually achieve, apart from look like a poor man’s Zaha Hadid? Smoke and (intelligent) mirrors.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I love the streamlined walls.gave it a thumbs up on SU
November 19th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
mmmmh. Nothing too innovative here or do i miss something?
By the way, the design doesn’t look too exciting to me and the ergonomy and production stuffs… i’m not too sure about it.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
We will be making these white organic stuff in the future because:
- All good materials will be gone
- We lose our sense of good taste
- Zaha will take over the world (in 2012 according the maya’s)
- We finally have good things to clean white walls
- It will rain plastic every day
- Custom made things will be so cheap that they stoped normal production
- and clearly there is something wrong with the past 2000 years of architecture, don’t you think?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
sleep, shag, bathe, sit, watch tv - the future looks as dull as the present.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
no we really need this?
November 21st, 2008 at 1:19 am
Don’t let the bull shit in here you’ll never clean it up!
Rather self indulgent don’t you think when half the world is starving - live in the real world man - get a useful life.
November 21st, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Well it certainly achieves futuristic styling. A bit like 2001: A Space Odyssey. I find it very interesting to look at but I’m not sure I would want to spend much time in this environment. A bit sterile perhaps?
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 am
it definitely is a study of architecture and technology.. not too sure if it covers the part about the human body. it seems so… sterile for us as ’social creatures’ who want warmth and comfort, people who need visual appeal than bright white walls. i’m thinking this is definitely one of those places used for ablutions and rest–not to actually live in.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
@ Soupdragon: “Why is the future always shiny white plastic?”.
it might be because of Kubrick’s 2001 a Space odyssee…
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:42 am
the new future concept..like the steamlined..thanks for sharing this!