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Future Hotel Germany : Architecture Information
Hotel Room of the Future, Germany by LAVA
Future Hotel, Germany
Design: LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)

Hotel Room of the Future
Designed to show hotels can use the latest technology to make guests
feel more comfortable.
Location: Fraunhofer Institute, Duisburg
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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
tomorrows 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 rooms 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 teams 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 which will be implemented
in LAVAs 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.

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Project Team LAVA:
Tobias Wallisser, Chris Bosse, Alexander Rieck with
Kadri Kaldam, Martin Völkle, Jan Saggau
LAVA - Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, Stuttgart
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