2019 · raum Utrecht · RAUM
RAUM Hotel Project The RAUM hotel intervention in Utrecht demonstrates systematic functional shift through design by listening to materials. The project comprises stationary hotel infrastructure constructed from building site fencing panels, and five mobile sleeping units converted from retired airforce tractors, milk floats, and trailers. Building fences arrive with embedded intelligence: modular assembly, weather resistance, boundary definition. Rather than imposing transformation, the project asks what these panels propose when released from construction cycles. Their answer, hospitality infrastructure, emerges from existing properties requiring minimal intervention. The mobile units follow parallel logic. Airforce tractors, milk floats, and trailers share purpose-built DNA: protective shells optimized for transport. Listening to what these vehicles suggest when freed from logistics n
internal transport car, shrink wrap, trailer.
