Luxury Hotel Made from 35 Recycled Shipping Containers Opens Next Month in China

Posted By Lori Zimmer On July 11, 2012 @ 10:36 am In Architecture,Cargotecture,carousel showcase,gallery | No Comments

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The Tonghe Shanzi Landscape Design ^[6]company has built their incredible five star Xiang Xiang Xiang Pray House hotel entirely out of shipping containers ^[7]! Looking like a drab shipping container village from the outside, the hotel oozes luxurious design inside its twenty-one cozy guest rooms, arranged on the side of a hill in Changski, China. Each room is fitted with with traditional Chinese décor, skylights, high-design furniture and more!

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The uber-industrial China exported over 3.2 million shipping containers ^[9] last year alone, far too many to repurpose or recycle them all. The ambitious hotel, in a rural region outside of the city of Changzhi, transforms storage containers like these, into a luxury getaway.

The boutique hotel offers cozy rooms in fifty or one hundred square feet, with eight and a half foot ceilings. The rooms may be small ^[10], but comfort is not spared. Each is furnished with high quality sofas, fixtures and bedding, including traditional lanterns and furniture. Guests can also hang out in the shipping container ^[11] lobby and restaurant, or watch a tea ceremony or music performance in the courtyards.

The pop-up hotel took just three months to design and install, exercising the alternative uses that facilities like these could have in disaster situations. The container hotels ^[12] could also be designed in one city, and easily transported to another, making pop-up hotels possible anywhere.

The Xiang Xiang Pray House will open in August of 2012.

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[10] rooms may be small: http://inhabitat.com/the-hive-apartment-is-a-graffiti-lovers-green-dream-home-in-melbourne/

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[12] container hotels: http://inhabitat.com/upcycled-shipping-containers-transformed-into-modern-spaces-by-whitecrate/

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