How About a Room Full of Nothing?

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The concept of Finnish designers Aamu Song and Johan Olin from Company (featured in a recent issue of Nordic Reach) is undoubtedly "futuristic." They have created a hotel without rooms, and without doors or walls between each personal sleeping area. When the guest arrives at "Canopy Village," they creep into their personal space, a cocoon-like bubble below the floor. Sitting in your personal container, your head (and your shoulders, depending upon your height) are above the floor, allowing you to interact with other guests if choose to do so.

At first glance, the room by Swedish designers Karin Lundberg and Rose Marie Andersson appears more traditional than the others. There are two beds, tables, a lamp and all of the normal attributes of a hotel room. But the frames of the beds are not flat, as one might expect, but curved, turning them into adult-size "rocking beds." Exposed wood surfaces throughout and some abstract trees cut out of pegboard give associations to the forest. But the idea isn't to recreate a forest in a hotel room, but to try to evoke the peaceful feeling of a Scandinavian forest. Quilted bedspreads with irregular decorations add to the personalized and "safe" sensation. This is a room where poetry rules over technology and a certain element of apparent chaos (as in nature) creates a safe and welcoming ambience.

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How About a Room Full of Nothing?

Welcome to Fiction Hotel

What will hotels look like in the year 2050? Stockholm's House of Culture (Kulturhuset) recently invited four teams of Nordic architects to each envision and create a room of the futur...

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