Tre­e­ho­tel - a demon­strati­on of eco­lo­gi­cal architecture

Tre­e­ho­tel by the town of Harads in Sweden near the polar circle shows us the directi­on which the deve­lo­p­ment of modu­lar archi­tectu­re and con­structi­on is following. Making use of new mate­ri­als as well as vari­ous sha­pes of modu­les is clear­ly bey­ond ide­as peo­ple may have con­cer­ning the possi­bi­li­ties of stan­dard con­structi­on. It is dif­ficult to ima­gi­ne what atti­tu­de the Czech legislati­on would ado­pt con­cer­ning this unique con­structi­on. The fact that Tre­e­ho­tel was rea­li­zed and is ope­ra­ted shows us that Swedish legislati­on is far more open to new methods of construction.

A group of archi­tects from Tham & Videgard Arki­tek­ter, name­ly Mar­tin Videgård, Bolle Tham, Andre­as Hel­ges­son, Julia Gudiel Urba­no and Mia Nygren, designed the hotel using untra­di­ti­o­nal mate­ri­als and con­structi­on methods. Tre­e­ho­tel is situa­ted in the tree­tops of a forest and inclu­des 5 rooms of vari­ous sha­pes and names, such as The Cabin, The Mirror­cu­be, The Bird‚s Nest, The Blue Cone and The UFO, as well as the Tree Sau­na and a con­fe­ren­ce room called The Dra­gon­fly. The rooms were put into ope­rati­on in 2010; other rooms will be ope­ned this year. The rooms are double-bed­ded and inclu­de sani­ta­ry equi­p­ment. The who­le hotel focuses on eco­lo­gy making use of was­tewa­ter and rainwa­ter. The indi­vi­du­al rooms are lin­ked with a rope bridge pro­vi­ded with a rai­ling with ultra-vio­let colou­red glass panes as pre­ven­ti­on aga­inst col­li­si­ons with birds. 

Pho­to­gra­pher: Ake E: son Lin­dman; Cli­ent: Brit­tas Pensi­o­nat, Brit­ta Lin­dvall and Kent Lindvall