026 URBAN LIVING
Bespoke Container Micro Hotel Unit System
2014
COMPACT HOTEL SYSTEM
Seoul has a huge undersupply of hotel rooms proportional to the number of visiting tourists. The statistcis are staggering: over the last decade Seoul has increased its foreign visitors by 6 fold to around 12 million visitors/year.
Our client wants to address this problem in the market by creatinga a micro business hotel based on a "bespoke" container system. Working together with leading korean steel manufacturers we have developed a unit system hotel that creates very diverse facade systems usings a fixed module type.
DATE
May 2013
STATUS
Commision
PROGRAMME
Urban Living Unit
SITE
Seoul, Itaewon
AREA
22,000 m2
TEAM
Peter W Ferretto, Hyunsu Kim, Sungyeol Choi, Heeyoung Pyun, Lucia Espinoza, Yeochun Yoon, Angel Maestro, Dongwan Rho
May 2013
STATUS
Commision
PROGRAMME
Urban Living Unit
SITE
Seoul, Itaewon
AREA
22,000 m2
TEAM
Peter W Ferretto, Hyunsu Kim, Sungyeol Choi, Heeyoung Pyun, Lucia Espinoza, Yeochun Yoon, Angel Maestro, Dongwan Rho