FRESH IDEAS FOR 2015 PROFESSIONAL FINALIST: ZOKU Submitted by: Hans Meyer and Marc Jongerius | Country: Netherlands Facilitating global living and working for the travelling professional, Zoku creates a new category within the hotel industry. Japanese for family, tribe, or clan, it’s a home-office hybrid, also suitable for long stays, with the services of a hotel and the social buzz of a thriving neighborhood. Zoku offers a home base with both a smart Zoku Loft (private areas) and social spaces (communal areas) to work, sleep, play and live in.
PROFESSIONAL FINALIST: SNOOZEBOX Submitted by: Ian O’Doherty | Country: United Kingdom Snoozebox delivers portable on-site event & festival hotel accommodation, letting guests stay close to the action. Custom trucks deliver premium rooms, which adapt internally to suit a range of customers, providing a day room and seven different en suite sleeping configurations. Tessellation of space & form around custom folding mechanisms maximizes guest space and allow rooms to compact by 50 percent during transportation. A hotel of a 100 rooms can be setup in 24 hours.
STUDENT WINNER: ADAPTIVE BALLOONS Submitted by: Yasmin Abdelfattah Soliman | School: Effat University | Country: Saudi Arabia Adaptive Balloons is designed to offer a refuge for people who have been affected by natural disasters and crises around the planet. A pop-up concept that can be installed and removed as needed, the adaptive tree is prefabricated to be installed on land or in water.
2015 ADVISORY BOARD Vann Avedisian, Principal, Highgate Hotels; New York Rob Kline, CEO & Co-Founder, The Chartres Lodging Group; San Francisco Julia Monk, Senior Principal, Director of Hospitality Design, HOK; Shanghai Glenn Nowak, Associate Professor of Architecture, UNLV; Las Vegas Cory Perlstein, Principal, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, New York John Schoenfeld, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey; Los Angeles Michael Suomi, Principal, Stonehill & Taylor; New York
Sebastien Bazin, CEO, Accor Hotels; Paris Jon Kastl, Principal, Champalimaud; New York Dave McCaslin, EVP, Hersha Hospitality, New York Jerry Haberman; Washington, D.C. Patrick Reardon, Executive Chairman, Reardon Smith; London Claus Sendlinger, Founder & CEO, Design Hotels AG; Berlin Josh Wyatt, Partner, Patron Capital; London, UK