Architecture as a way to transformation; as a tool to change pre-established standards and to seek a constant and increasingly intelligent improvement in the way in which we interact with our environment.
This is the key and the true commitment of the DistrictHive project (www.districthive.com) from its purely architectural and constructive approach. Something that, at first glance, may sound simple but, as its creators confess, is enormously complex at all levels.
"Challenges are our thing, we love to face the impossible and make a difference by making what nobody thinks is feasible," says Priyesh Patel, CEO of the Portugal-based company Districthive LDA, promoter and creator of the first 100% autonomous and self-sufficient podtel (capsule hotel), which has already conquered the world from its location in the desert of Gorafe (Granada). "And undertaking a project of this magnitude and with this basis entails an enormous responsibility.
“Especially when what you are looking for is to completely change the concept of luxury tourism that we had until now and put the real focus on the enjoyment of the environment, the unique, wild and beautiful landscape that nature offers us, but respecting it to the maximum, connecting with it.
"We have achieved this through two of the most powerful tools there are: architecture and technology. So we have sought out and involved here the best professionals in their field."
DistrictHive is, therefore, a multidisciplinary, multifaceted project, born out of the cooperation and work between international teams, led by the Spanish firm MOHO Arquitectos.
The podtel is a fully industrialized construction that is offered finished, transported to the site and in a few hours is ready to be used. It does not touch the ground on which it sits, has no foundations and does not require any type of piping, plumbing or sanitation. The support system developed has 6 legs that, like a spaceship landed on Mars, rest on the ground.
The entire DistrictHive construction process was carried out in the workshop using dry construction solutions, for which it was extremely important to detail each of the components that make up the project with millimetric precision.
The Gorafe podtel is intended to be the first of many others that will continue to be installed in different remote and beautiful places on the planet.
