Hotello is a Pop-Up Hotel Room That Fits Inside a Trunk

If you’ve ever found yourself in a new city with nowhere to stay, the Hotello <a href="http://inhabitat.com/quotel-is-a-polish-pop-up-hotel-that-makes-recycled-materials-look-posh/mode-lina-quotel1/" target="_blank">pop up room</a> may be for you. Designed by Roberto de Luca and Antonio Scarponi for <a href="http://www.daskonzept.ch/" target="_blank">Das Konzept</a>, the forty four square-foot accommodations pop out of a red metal trunk on caster wheels. Hotello has everything yo need for a short stay or a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/cinderella-inspired-pumpkin-room-transforms-edg-creatives-into-fairytale-brainstormers/" target="_blank">portable office space</a>.

The <a href="http://inhabitat.com/a-prototype-of-the-ablenook-rapidly-deployable-emergency-modular-living-unit-is-now-complete/" target="_blank">foldable hotel room</a> concept was meant to be constructed anywhere, with the flexibility of use- from a private place to sleep to a pop up work space or meeting room.

The light metal frame extends to give the users privacy, and is lined with two curtains- one is translucent to let light in, and the other is sound-absorbing, helping to close the room off to the world outside.

The trunk also contains a desk, lamp, stool, shelf and locker. Users can add a foldable shelf bed, or even add a full sized mattress bed.

Scarponi and de Luca imagined Hotello as a sound-proof solution for flexible work environments, but the concept has endless possibilities. Hotello could be used on a day to day basis as an inexpensive way to construct a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/modern-kenjo-cabin-is-a-solar-powered-floating-room-for-a-family-in-sweden/" target="_blank">private bedroom in a raw loft space in urban settings</a>- without hiring a construction company to install permanent walls. Hotello could also play a role in disaster relief.

The easily transportable trunks could be wheeled to disaster sites, and provide victims with private accommodations just about anywhere.

Hotello will make its debut at <a href="http://www.cosmit.it/tool/home.php?s=0,2,67,71,75" target="_blank">Salone del Mobile</a> at Giulio Procaccini 4 at Milan Design Week.