A hotel has opened on the outskirts of Helsinki featuring rooms that can be workspaces by day and bedrooms by night.
VALO Hotel & Work aims to offer a solution for people working remotely ? a number that has increased significantly since the coronavirus pandemic ? as well as more traditional hotel guests.
The hotel's head of design, Minna Hurme, developed the concept in collaboration with office design specialist Workplace Oy, interior design studio Fyra and construction company SSA.
VALO Hotel & Work is a 422-room hotel near Helsinki
At the heart of the concept are guest rooms that can be easily converted from a typical hotel bedroom into a dedicated workspace for several people.
This means that rooms are more likely to be in use for 24 hours a day. Rooms are designed to function as offices or bedrooms
"Our sustainable innovation is based on the dual-use concept," said the VALO team.
"Rather than having a hotel vacant during the day and an office empty at night and weekends, VALO combines the two utilities into one space."
Beds and desks fold down from the wall, controlled by an app
VALO Hotel & Work is on the shortlist for Dezeen Awards 2021 in two categories: hotel and short-stay interior and sustainable interior.
The 18,000-square metre building contains 422 dual-purpose rooms, ranging from 12 to 29 square metres in size.
Sofas can be tucked away out of sight to make room for the bed
In order for the concept to work, these rooms needed to...