Sustainable architecture is increasingly looking at recycled materials and waste. In Germany, in the city of Mannheim, a project for the rapid construction of hotels has begun starting from waste materials. These are the Shabby Shabby Hotels. Raumalabor has started a tender to build hotel rooms using waste.
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THEsustainable architecture looks more and more at recycled materials and waste. In Germany, in the city of Mannheim, a project for the rapid construction of hotels has begun starting from waste materials. It is about the Hotel Shabby Shabby. raumalabor launched a tender to quickly build hotel rooms using waste.
The main focus of the project Hotel Shabby Shabby is about creating 20 spaces for hospitality in view of the Theater of the World, a festival dedicated to theater that will take place this spring. Each room must be built in just 7 days, be equipped with a lock and padlock and be resistant to any climatic condition.
It is a real one challenge to the bureaucratic system, which would normally not allow such initiatives. Yet, the recovery of waste and waste materials could represent a real turning point for architecture. The construction of the hotel rooms will take place inside otherwise unused locations, such as i now closed shopping centers and abandoned.
In the opinion of the architects who will participate in the project, the city of Mannheim will be transformed into a real artist canvas, on which to give life to new solutions to welcome tourists that will be focused above all on creative recycling. From warehouses, depots and waste collection centers it will be possible recover furniture, chairs, lamps and most of the necessary to furnish a hotel room.
Among the places to be recovered in which the hotel rooms created from waste will be built, there will also be the military barracks abandoned for at least 65 years, after the Second World War. Part of the project will be financed by the government, to give new life to brownfields and allow for intelligent reconstruction.
Marta Albè
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