Elon Musk's Hyperloop project spawns concept for high-speed hotel
When it comes to new hotel concepts, being hurtled across the United States in a capsule sure is innovative.
Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, has come up with the concept of a ‘Hyperloop Hotel’ which would allow guests to travel long distances without leaving their suites.
The concept won a Radical Innovation Award in the student category, a competition for imaginative hotel designs.
Each hotel suite would be a shipping container kitted-out with luxury fittings including an office and television, that guests would be able to sleep in as they travelled.
There would be destination hotels for guests to dock at in 13 cities, all connected by a Hyperloop system.
Artists impression of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, which the hotel concept is based on. Photo: Supplied
The entire booking would be managed via an app, and would mean customers wouldn’t have to negotiate flights and accommodation in multiple states while on holiday which Siebrecht has cited is a major inconvenience.
The total cost has been flagged as $US130 million and guests could pay a flat rate of $US1,200 to travel to multiple destinations in a day or week. Siebrecht has not said how much a single night would cost.
Most of the technology for the Hyperloop Hotel does not exist yet, but it is based on tech billionaire Elon Musk’s concept of Hyperloop high-speed travel system.
Mr Musk, who heads electric carmaker Tesla Motors and private space exploration firm SpaceX introduced the concept to the press and investors in 2013 and said he wants it to be faster than a plane.
In February a parliamentary committee urged the Australia government to consider building a Hyperloop between cities and country towns as a solution to housing affordability.
A jury of seven hotel investors, developers, and architects selected the Hyperloop Hotel as the one of two finalists out of over 65 submissions from 24 countries.
