Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C.
Surrounded by mountains, the hotel in the village of Qinglongwu was built inside an old rammed-earth structure that has been given a glazed gable-end extension.
A wooden extension covered in translucent corrugated plastic panels projects from the eastern gable end of the original structure
The full-height glazed gable end fills the lobby with light, that filters through a central bar towards a reading space at the western end.
Atelier Tao+C filled the existing structural shell with a series of bedrooms stacked inside a triple-height space that doubles as a library and a book shop.
Steel staircases connect the different floors.
The hotel is split into separate areas for male and female guests, with 20 capsule bedrooms and two communal bathrooms.
The bookshelves, which cover the interior of the building as well as the outside of the capsules, have been constructed from local bamboo.
Atelier Tao+C designed the shelves to work with the staircases to create a series of paths and places to stop and read.
"The stairs, with only nine steps for each section, formed a zig-zagging route with quick turns," said the practice.
"It is in fact quite similar to the paths in the mountains where moments of people's meandering, ascending, stopping, reading, snooping and resting in the capsules are revealed from time to time."
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