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3.2 Das ParkHotel v by Gunda Wiesner und Andreas Strauss (2004) Design Purpose: Design of a hotel which shows a special sign of hospitality in the city of Ottensheim for the bicycle riders using the Donau track which passes the hotel. User: Visitors and bicycle track users who plan to stay over night in Ottensheim. Location: Ottensheim, Germany, but it can be used everywhere where there is an infrastructure to fulfill basic needs close by. Goal: To design a cheap and usable new kind of hotel: A hospitality hotel. Concept: Standard canal tubes are converted into luxurious hotel rooms. The converted canal tubes feature a luxurious comfort (e.g. tall enough to stand in, king size bed, storage, electricity and banquets).
Figure 3.3: Design of ParkHotel
Other facilities for personal daily needs which do already exist in the public environment (e.g. public toilets, restaurants, showers) are located close by and the user of the ParkHotel can use these facilities to fulfill his needs. Booked from the Internet the user is given a personal code to open the door of the
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For more information about the project see http://www.dasparkhotel.net (accessed October 17th, 2006).