LIVE Between / HKS Architects

Mar 2012

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , HKS Architects

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Live Between, a concept design by HKS Architects, is a newly launched hotel experience for guests who enjoy the extreme. Their design seeks out urban cities to set up short-term residency between existing buildings. As it moves from city to city, it is designed and installed specific to its temporary inhabitance. Taking on various forms from a spider’s web to a constellation, the hotel formation is ever changing and always evolving. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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Imagine a hotel that brings the destination to you. Imagine an experience so hard to explain, you can only see it to believe it. Imagine sleeping hundreds of feet above the ground, between buildings people work and live in. Imagine making your reservation, today. Hotel destinations are targeted towards urban cities of unique character. From Tokyo to New York, Dubai to London, the versatile hotel seeks to bring an additional economic bonus to cities known for hospitality and grandeur. This chameleon adaptability allows this design to move and expand as quickly as human life itself.

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As the first mobile hotel brand with a mission of revitalization, {LB} also focuses on erecting between buildings or in cities stricken with hardship. Under utilized, unoccupied and abandoned buildings set the stage for a monumental design opportunity. While the Live Between hotel is installed between these buildings, hotel amenities and services are temporarily installed in the floor plates of these environments to accommodate guest needs. {LB} takes negative, depleted space and breathes life into it, renewing interest in an area forgotten.

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Deconstructed pods on semi-trucks ceremonially move into town, generating a buzz within each city just as the freight cars of the circus once did. A sense of energy and anticipation slowly infiltrates each city, and people begin to flock to see the procession. Although nobody ever knows if or when it is coming, the buzz is always brewing.

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For those hotel guests who cannot imagine jumping out of a plane or bungee jumping off a bridge, Live Between guests can rest assured their safety is secure. Designed in collaboration by architects, engineers, aerospace technicians and the multidisciplinary elite, the hotel is designed with a high strength cabling and tension pulley system. Each pod is a self-contained guestroom, with power, efficiencies and plumbing contained within the lower portion of the orb. As the exterior transparency reveals itself from solid to clear, from web-like to reflective, each aspect of the pod’s exterior is intricately designed to maximize the guest experience. Radical design, extreme imagination, superior engineering, and cutting edge technology combine to beat the unbeaten path, paving the way for the first ever urban hotel temporarily erected between existing buildings.

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Cite:
Furuto , Alison . "LIVE Between / HKS Architects" 31 Mar 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed 25 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/220973>

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Philip Bruno says:

Cool Idea! Not sure how circulation would work though… My guess is we’ll have to zip line into these hotel rooms.

# March 31, 2012 at 10:15

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matt deacon says:

This is a joke, right?

“Imagine making your reservation, today”. The copy is worse than the concept.

# March 31, 2012 at 15:20

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Chris says:

I never even comprehended such an idea before. Now I can’t imagine living another day of my life without this knowledge made manifest. Amazing. Ecstatic. Revolutionary. Hyperbole.

# March 31, 2012 at 16:22

moh yousaf says:

i think this concept need some modifications.

# April 1, 2012 at 06:57

Randy says:

April Fool`s!

# April 1, 2012 at 14:38

bLogHouse says:

apparently this company is doing pretty well if they can afford to waste resources on making an architectural folly like this. Too bad it fails as such also.

# April 2, 2012 at 02:02

erick says: