An architecture firm has designed a floating, 5-star hotel that would generate its own electricity by rotating, but it may be too futuristic for its own good
Katie Warren
- A Turkish architecture firm has designed a floating, eco-friendly hotel to be built in Qatar.
- The hotel would rotate to generate electrical energy and include wind turbines and rainwater collection.
- It's unclear who would develop the hotel or how much it would cost, and feasibility studies are ongoing.
A Turkish architecture firm has designed an eco-friendly floating hotel to be built in Qatar.
The design by Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (HAADS) is for a five-star hotel with 152 rooms that would span more than 376,000 square feet, or about 8.6 acres.
Construction on the hotel has not yet begun, and feasibility studies and technical assessments are ongoing, Kübra Türk, one of the architects working on the project at HAADS, told Insider.
The planned hotel would rotate to generate electrical energy, according to the architects.
The rotation would "not produce all the energy it needs," Türk said.
He added that the amount of electricity generated will depend on where the hotel is located and the water current there.
The hotel design also includes 55 vertical wind turbines that would generate electricity and double as sun umbrellas.
Rainwater collectors and a water purification system for obtaining water from the sea are also incorporated in the design, Türk said.
Other eco-friendly measures planned for the hotel include a system for using food waste as fertilizer for the landscaping and treating the hotel's waste water so it doesn't harm the environment, according to the design plans.
The plan is for the hotel to be built in Qatar - a peninsular nation with more than 350 miles of coastline - but the design firm says it could be moved virtually anywhere in the world.
"No exact location is out of the question," Türk said. "Because the project can move, it has the potential to be positioned in any area if the required flow is provided."
To stay in place, the hotel would use dynamic positioning, a computer-controlled system set to automatically maintain a ship's position and direction using its own propellers and thrusters.
Guests would be able to reach the hotel by boat or via a 140-foot pier that would connect to the shore.
Source: HAADS
They could also arrive by helicopter to the helipad located on the floating pier.
Source: HAADS
Design plans show that the center of the hotel would be occupied by a 7,500-square-foot lobby with a glass roof.
Source: HAADS
Each of the 152 guest rooms would come with its own private balcony.
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The hotel is also designed to have indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a sauna and spa, a gym, a mini golf course, and other activity areas.
Source: HAADS
The ambitious project has an estimated completion date of 2025, but there are still many unanswered questions.
The architect, Türk, said he could not disclose which company would operate the planned hotel or the source of the funding for its development for confidentiality purposes.
He also said he could not estimate a total cost to build the hotel at this stage as the feasibility and technical studies are still ongoing and many of the hotel's design elements will be used for the first time.
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