Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
Students have been working in groups on their master plan for their chosen sites which include the Bollywood area, the Port and the Centers of Mumbai. They are now in the details of their capsules where they are working on their site, environment and energy source. Faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo were consulting students on how to go ahead with their research.
This project intends to develop a new luxury hotel concept where the user has the opportunity to live an experience in a floating system moving around the world. The MORPHotels, thanks to their linear structure, developed around the vertebral spine, are able to adapt the shape according with the weather conditions and the site morphology.
The MORPHotels concept is based on four main strategies: SPACE IN BETWEEN: using the sea not only as a medium to move tourist from one point to another (like cruise ships) but take advantage from this “space in between” in order to discover unknown places; PLUG-IN CITY-ARBOUR: this artificial organism, during its continuous journey around the oceans and the seas, will stop for short or long periods in cities met throughout its trip becoming a temporary extension of them; ADAPTIVE SHAPE and FLOATING MOVEMENT.
SPACE IN BETWEEN: avoiding the classical logic of the cruise ship (with average cruise speed around 20 nodes the fuel consumption is 470 Liters/Km) this system would change the rules about the sea trips; the MORPHotels is always in movement with slow speed around the world and the tourist has to catch up it wherever it will be. The user won’t use it like a cruise ship that start from point A, reach the end point (B) and go back; here the segment A-B is only a small part of the entire-endless way of the MORPHotel.
PLUG-IN CITY-ARBOUR: as a temporary extension of the hosting city, the MORPHotel will be an added value for the citizen that are taking advantage from its services (theater play, commercial area) and at the same time the tourist and the city life will switch on a new contact.
Students had been researching on their site and master plan for their Self-sufficient hotel capsules.They were discussing this development with Faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite Bravo who helped them decide on where to put their buildings and how they would relate to the chosen site.
Students had been researching on their site and master plan for their Self-sufficient hotel
capsules.They were discussing this development with Faculty Willy Muller and assistant Maite
Bravo who helped them decide on where to put their buildings and how they would relate to the
chosen site.
The last Class before Easter Break was on the Site Proposal and Master planning of the self-sufficient buildings. Students were divided into groups and were deciding on where their location site which will be in Mumbai, India, Each group was involved in the master planning of their Neighbourhood. There were intense discussions with Faculty willy Muller and Maite Bravo, which by the end of the day brought some concrete conclusions.
