Bola Sociology Design

Architecture: Shipping Container Hotel

August 27th, 2008

The Travelodge hotel chain has just opened in Uxbridge Central (Middlexex, Inglaterra) an innovative hotel built from prefab shipping containers. The outside of the building was covered and received windows, and looking at the facade no one would guess what the structure actually looks like. The 120-room hotel was built in only 10 weeks, and the prefab structure saved about US$900.000, according to design studio Verbus Systems. Travelodge is now planning to open a version with 307 rooms at Heathrow. Famous for its affordable rates, the company intends to save almost 20 million dollars per year by using this new construction method.