On what the hotel of the middle of a this century will be similar? Whether it will float or fly, whether will replace robots of managers and the parlourmaiden? The weight of architects and engineers offers unusual decisions. Hotel business, however, a thing conservative. Also does not hasten to take revolutionary innovations on arms.

British company M3 Architects develops the project of mobile hotel-pod or hotel-cocoon.

The idea consists what to create easily modular modular hotels, with almost completely closed "life-support system" and independent energy sources. They could be established quickly in any beautiful place. Any roads or other infrastructure to the given district it is not required. Tourists on vacation spot can be forwarded by helicopter.

Influence of "pods" on an environment should be minimal.
And in case the chosen place for any reasons will cease to be repaid, the hotel can be transferred, having left the nature untouched.
Let's add, almost untouched. If to recollect, how usually cooperate with the nature of crowd having a rest.

According to authors of the project, such hotel completely vypolnima already today. The question only in the one who the first will dare to catch such hotel and will lay out from $72 million up to $104 million.

It is curious, that four more decades back very similar project, let in much smaller scale, Finnish architect Matti Suuronen realized. But its houses-UFOs were nowadays kept in not numerous copies. Even if owners of hotel business look at such "ordinary" hotel with vigilance what to speak about more daring ideas.

For example, international design company Wimberly, Allison, Tong and Goo (WATG) has created conceptual projects of space, air and underwater hotel. Numbers of first of them will be placed in the big ring rotating for creation of artificial gravitation. Bright stars on a black velvet of the sky should replace to lodgers of space station set the teeth on edge traditional " kinds with the sea ".

Visitors of air hotel from firm WATG will enjoy, accordingly, the neighbourhood with birds. The hotel will keep in air on huge gelievyh cylinders. It will move, but, unlike the plane, in slow rate and at low height, giving to tourists to a turn of smart kinds from a window.

And inhabitants of underwater hotel will see behind windows of numbers is lazy sauntering sharks and tropical small fishes. The underwater resort will be placed nearby from a coastal line and connected to coast the bridge. By the way, idea of underwater hotel old and rather attractive. It is not excluded, that first such hotel will open for lodgers in December, 2006. Speech not about the project of firm WATG, and about complex Hydropolis of architect Ioahima Hauzera (Joachim Hauser) which is planned for constructing in Dubai.

Still the company participates in work above hotel-ship America World City Ship. But it is almost banal: huge kruiznoe the vessel which can long be in independent navigation, accepts lodgers by means of the ferries moored in dock inside of the case of hotel-giant.

However, where more interestingly, whether cardinally internal "filling" hotels of the future will change. Futurologist Glenn Himstra (Glen Hiemstra) believes, what yes, and a key role the robotics, technology of biometric safety (type of scanners of a retina) and nanotehnologii here will play.

, perhaps, it is possible to agree with first two items. Though and with clauses. The automated complexes where computers and robots are replaced with the classical attendants, and access to number the person receives " on a finger " or " on an eye " — are really represented grasping.

However even supporters of revolutionary innovations not always consider justified absolutely cardinal lomku traditions.

For example, Howard Vulf (Howard Wolff; representative WATG, swung as we remember, on hotels in space, clouds and under water) sneers at such ambitions of revolutionaries at a robotics: " there Is all value that you meets someone alive who remembers your name when you come back in hotel ".

The third item of forecast Himstra can cause only a smile. "Nano" is today simply fashionably.

Glenn believes, that already in 2025 or in 2030 there will be the hotel rooms, capable to flow and be transformed at a molecular level, being arranged under desires of the next owner and growing up subjects mebelirovki.

It is thought, such forecast is unduly optimistical. And not only because Himstra obviously was mistaken with date, years on hundred.

Represent, what will be with the inhabitant nanorobototehnicheskoi a room allocated by creative imagination if it razladitsia and will decide to make beautiful table service of the sleeping person?

So in inertness of hotel business, perhaps, there is a positive party.