In keeping with my last post about places to sleep, I thought I'd share with you all this amazing hotel I discovered yesterday. It's called the Treehotel and it's located in the village Harads, which is about 60 km south of the Artic Circle, in Sweeden.
The Treehotel is made of six different super eco-friendly rooms in the middle of a forest. Each one was designed by a different well known architect or designer to be in harmony with nature. The six rooms are the Mirror Cube, The Cabin, The Bird's Nest, The UFO, A Room With a View, and The Blue Cone. You can check them all out on the Treehotel website.
Below you'll find pictures of one of the rooms, the Mirror Cube, which was designed by Tham & Videgard Architects. It is made of light weight aluminum and plywood boxes hung around a tree trunk. The whole thing is covered in a mirror to make it virtually invisible to everyone but birds, which apparently can see the infrared film that is laminated into the glass panes to prevent them from colliding with it. Inside there is living space for two people, a double bed, bath, living room, and roof terrace. To get inside, you cross a rope bridge. Cool, huh?
External views
Internal views
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