A-TYPIC designed by award winning practice rare architecture challenges our perception of atypical hotel room dimensions.
Our work as a practice encounters the need to develop functional and comfortable hotel rooms with a cutting-edge design for non-standard hotel room dimensions and layouts. This model room presented at the Sleep event 2011 questions how hotel room design can develop within non-standard spaces with a standardized design. The central spine element, containing all facilities, is developed as an island, which defines functions while preserving the openness to provide a feeling of space in contrived dimensions. The novelty in our approach lies in the fact that this island is an assemblage of well crafted furniture elements, rather than a monolithic block. The hotel room thus becomes a space where light-weight furniture modules merge into a coherent whole.
Exhibiting the inventiveness that can be explored in such conditions, both at the scale of the layout and at the scale of the furniture design, rare architecture is collaborating with LIGNE ROSET, CORIAN, ANNE KYYRO QUINN, VILLEROY & BOCH, LANO, GEBERIT, BRISTAN and LIGNA to develop a range of dual-function furniture pieces, responding to such constrained conditions.
