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HOTEL shabbyshabby
Raumlaborberlin

152 Seiten
mit 90 Farbabbildungen
Broschur mit Poster als Schutzumschlag

 



Leipzig May, 2015
ISBN: 9783944669885
Edition Number: 1

Width: 190 cm
Length: 265 cm

Language(s): English, German

Editor
Raumlaborberlin

Designer
Double Standards

Text
Benjamin Foerstser-Baldenius, Chikara Fujiwara, Matthias Lilienthal, Lukasz Lendzinski, Heike Schuppelius

In the spring of 2014, as part of the Theater der Welt festival, the architects’ collective raumlaborberlin put out a call for budding designers to create the hotel room of their dreams for the City of Mannheim. An international jury panel selected twenty-two designs, which were constructed in an public workshop in front of the National Theatre and then put up in distinctive locations around the city. Temporary sleeping installations made of wood, sheets of greenhouse glass, and plastic trays sprang up in the port of Mannheim, in pedestrian zones, and in parks, some of them screened off to provide privacy and some not. During the festival theatregoers had the option to spend a night in the experimental dwellings. The publication uses texts and a variety of colour images to document the process of creating HOTEL shabbyshabby and the reactions of guests.