State Morelos, Mexico, offers the perfect recreation for “green” travellers. Andreas Strauss, German architect, has come up with a brilliant idea to save space and retain a hotel from interfering with the environment.
The “T3arc” studio has brought the idea to life. The Mexican city Tepoztlan now boasts an original ensemble of concrete tubes that have been cleaned and dried up to become hotel rooms for visitors from all over the world. TuboHotel presents a number of tubes that only offer single or twin beds, whereas all the facilities like shower, bathroom and cafeteria are located nearby outside.
The Mexican hotel is the second version of an eco-friendly hostel designed by Andreas Strauss. The first hotel of the kind was built not far from Essen, Germany, and featured round plastic doors to each room, as oppose to transparent glass entries in the Mexican version.
Both kinds of the tubed hotels certainly require a warm dry climate and, amazingly, offer the services at very moderate prices established to attract “green” visitors and promote the idea to masses.
