Sleep In Nature!

I read Dea's Article "Unique Hotels" and I really interested in the 5th hotel, which is Cedar Creek Treehouse in Washington. Then I try to search the other hotel which offer the same thing and I found this hotel, called Treehotel.

Treehotel is located in the boreal forest approximately an hour by car from Luleå (Kallax) airport, it's in Sweden. Designed by some of Scandinavia’s leading architects such as Martin Videgård and Bolle Tham as well as Mårten & Gustav Cyrén, the hotel promises to reconnect its guests with nature. This hotel first open in July 2010, there are total of 24 rooms have been planned for the forest area around Harads, but right now they offer 5-tree rooms. More rooms will be completed in 2012. Each room is located four to six meters above the ground and they all share the magnificent views of the surrounding natural environment. The rooms themselves vary in size from 15-30m2.

The 5-tree rooms are..

1. The Mirror Cube

The Mirrorcube is an exciting hide-out among the trees designed by Martin Videgård and Bolle Tham, camouflaged by mirrored walls that reflect their surroundings. The dimensions are 4x4x4 metres. The base consists of an aluminum frame around the tree trunk and the walls are covered with reflective glass.

To prevent birds from flying into the mirrored walls, they have been clad with infrared film. The colour is invisible to humans, but visible to the birds.

The interior is made from plywood with a birch surface. The six windows provide a stunning panoramic view. The Mirrorcube offers excellent accommodation for two people with a double bed, bathroom, lounge, and rooftop terrace. A 12-meter-long bridge leads up to the treeroom.

 2. The Cabin

The Cabin designed by Mårten & Gustav Cyrén. The Cabin is like a capsule, a foreign body in the trees. The room is 24m² and accommodates two people, with a double bed, bathroom and terrace. 

This treeroom’s location was based on the idea of creating a platform high up on a sharp hillside overlooking the Lule River valley. You can reach the hut from here via a horizontal bridge among the trees. At the front of the bridge is a large wooden deck.

The bridge is a long and interesting structure among the trees. The Cabin hangs slightly off-set, under the deck, partly to visually reduce the size and partly to give the tree room its own custom look.

3. The Bird's Nest

The Bird’s nest is built on the contrasts between the outside and inside. The treeroom’s exterior is nothing but a gigantic bird’s nest. It gives a camouflage so you quickly disappear and become part of the surroundings.

The interior, on the other hand, is familiar and exclusive. It’s a spacious environment where a family with two children can comfortably spread out. The walls are clad with wood panels and the windows almost disappear in the exterior’s network of branches. The room is 17m² and has separate bedrooms, bathroom, and living area. You enter the Bird’s Nest with the help of a retractable staircase.

4. The UFO

The room is cast in durable composite material – all to create the lightest, yet strong and sustainable design possible. The interior gives the room a modern and comfortable feel over two floors. The UFO is built for four people, two adults and two children, with separate bedrooms, bathroom and living area. The room is 30m².

5. The Blue Cone

The Blue Cone is based on simplicity and accessibility, both in terms of material and design. The room is a traditional wooden structure with three foundations in the ground to give a sense of height and lightness, but also stability.

You access the room via a bridge from the nearby mountain. The bridge is well suited for people with disabilities. The exterior consists of laminated birch wood, the interior of timber. The treeroom is 22m² and has four beds, separate sleeping loft, bathroom and living room.

A very important part of this hotel concept is to consider ecological values and make minimal environmental impact. For this reason they devote considerable resources to finding sustainable construction and energy solutions.

Treehotel is built on the genuine experience of nature, so it’s a given that sustainability and ecological values are two pillars of  hotel operation. They build treerooms in the natural forest while hardly affecting the surroundings. They choose material and construction techniques that make as little environmental impact as possible. They build on live trees without destroying the tree and they do not chop down any trees or damage nature while building. Mostly they use local construction companies.

They have chosen Eco outdoor wood floor, which doesn't contain any chemical substances. The wood is heated to over 200 degrees, which triggers their intrinsic resistance to protect against destruction. The treerooms all have good insulation and are warmed up by underfloor heating. The electricity is supplied locally from green hydroelectric power. And the lighting consists of low-energy LED-systems.

Daily operations have minimal impact on nature as well. The treerooms have no sewage system and when cleaning, they always use eco-friendly products. Each room has a modern, environmentally friendly combustion toilet where everything is incinerated at 600 °C. The toilets are completely odourless and powered by electricity. Mirrorcube, on the other hand, has a freezing-toilet, also electrically powered and completely odourless. In winter, it also contributes to heating.

Bathrooms have water-efficient sinks with running water sufficient for washing hands, face and brushing teeth. All wastewater is collected in a container that is emptied daily. Showers are located in a separate building.

It's great and it's green! What an interesting hotel for holiday vacation, hope we can visit this place someday :)

Source : 

http://yatzer.com/Treehotel-Sleep-in-Nature

http://www.treehotel.se/

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