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Not a Hotel Anywhere

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Study car is furnished with a desk, a small washroom, and a sofa. - Kenta Hasegawa
Study car. Blind-like curtains were designed to correspond to the curve of the wall surface. - Kenta Hasegawa
Sink in study car designed to reduce the volume. - Kenta Hasegawa
Study car is furnished with a desk, a small washroom, and a sofa. - Kenta Hasegawa

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JURY VOTES
Small Apartment
6.45
6.65
7.07
6.38
6.64
Christopher Lye
Christopher Lye Principal at Woods Bagot
Is always challenging to design per...
5
5.5
5
4.5
5
Viktorija Valiulyte
Viktorija Valiulyte Senior Designer for EMEA Flagshipstores at Nike
This project made me smile and dayd...
8.5
8
8.5
7.5
8.13
Ke Xie
Ke Xie Founder at Signyan Design
7.5
6
7.5
7
7
Esin Karliova
Esin Karliova Founder and Principal at Studio Karliova
Imaginative and interesting use of...
6
6
7
5
6
Elnaz Taghaddos
Elnaz Taghaddos Cofounder at E Plus A Atelier
The project adeptly repurposes old...
7.5
6.5
8
6
7
Ankur Choksi
Ankur Choksi Cofounder and Principal at Studio Lotus
6
5.5
7
5
5.88
Matteo Ferrari
Matteo Ferrari Founder at Matteo Ferrari Studio
Fun but effective idea and solution...
7
7
7
7
7
Micha Klein
Micha Klein Executive Director at Liganova
as the airstream is following an ul...
5.5
6.5
6.5
5
5.88
Moein Jalali
Moein Jalali Founder at Moein Jalali and Partners
5
5
6
6
5.5
Javier Jimenez Iniesta
Javier Jimenez Iniesta Director at Studio Animal
7
8
8
7
7.5
Heather Dubbeldam
Heather Dubbeldam Principal at Dubbeldam Architecture + Design
8
8
8.5
8
8.13
Jenn Celesia
Jenn Celesia Founder at Jenn Celesia Consulting
7
7
7
6
6.75
Christina Prodromou
Christina Prodromou Director at COX Architecture
8
8
8
8
8
Rahul Mistri
Rahul Mistri Founder and Principal Designer at Open Atelier Mumbai
5
6.12
7.35
6.84
6.33
Cathy Wang
Cathy Wang Founder and Principal at Montaigne Design
6.72
7.47
6.81
6.56
6.89
Kot Ge
Kot Ge Founder at LSD Interior Design
5
5.5
6
6
5.63
Søren Pihlmann
Søren Pihlmann Founder at pihlmann architects
5
7
6
7
6.25
Designer
Client
Not a Hotel
Floor area
74 ㎡
Completion
2023
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Instagram
Furniture
Planting
Textile Design

This project began with a request to design a new, more mobile, location-independent way of living, using vintage trailers as its base. We proposed creating living spaces using five vehicles, each equipped with only one function, such as a bedroom or study car. Our idea was to offer a more fulfilling way of living than conventional homes, in which one can choose a vehicle as needed and take it on a journey without being bound to a particular location.

For the five vehicles, we selected functions that are difficult to procure locally - a bath, "snack bar"- and highly private functions - a bedroom and study - and reconfigured them for use in the vehicles. Also, based on the idea that the nature of the travel destination, such as a forest, lakeside, or seaside, should be the center of the living space, the tarp is put up between the vehicles and creates a spacious outdoor living room where one can incorporate the surrounding environment wherever one goes.

To allow for a 360-degree view from the windows in any environment, we switched materials between the upper and lower portions of the trailer, concentrating all the necessary functions in each trailer in the lower part, which does not interfere with the windows, so that no functional volumes appear above waist level. The furniture pieces that inevitably protrude into the upper portion of the trailer are all designed with mesh or transparent materials or reduced volumes.

Two vintage campers, the Airstream and the Spartan, were used for this project, with the oldest body manufactured in 1954. on the exterior shells, we kept the existing texture of the vintage trailer as much as possible, adding minimal modifications such as waterproofing.

Transporting an entire room may be a far-fetched idea in today's society, but it will become a reality when automated driving becomes widely available. If one could develop a system that breaks down necessary functions into units based on the size of the road, the size of the trailer towing them, or the size of the available parking space and automatically transports them to your destination, it would open up possibilities for an entirely different lifestyle from the one we are used to.

Cities and roads are planned and formed slowly over thirty to fifty years. During that time, the circumstances that formed the basis for the planning may change, and what was once considered social problems at the time may cease to be so during the construction process. In thinking about cities, we should consider this long period in the design process. Assuming possible changes in society and cities will provide seeds for imagination.