Dolmen Shelter is a fictional boutique hotel with stone-shaped guest suites
Creative duo Davit and Mary Jilavyan created the renderings of this imaginary hotel after seeing an insignificant rock feature near their Moscow home.
Dolmen Shelter would be a boutique hotel composed of guest cabins shaped like rough-hewn stones. The project is meant to be loosely evocative of dolmens ? ancient megalithic structures composed of huge upright and horizontal rocks.
Although many dolmens are assumed to be tombs or burial chambers, archaeologists are largely unaware of who erected them or why.
The guest cabins of Dolmen Shelter would be shaped like huge stones
Siblings Davit Jilavyan and Mary Jilavyan came up with the concept for the imaginary getaway after they took a walk through their housing complex in Moscow, which includes a small communal courtyard. "Our courtyard has a landscape composition of three stones ? we never paid much attention to it, but somehow we stopped walking during the day and started looking at this composition of stones and the idea of our dolmens came to our mind," the pair told Dezeen.
"The view from our window [in Moscow] is very depressing... our personal projects are a way to escape from the dullness of our environment."
Each cabin would be fronted by a heavy black door
Guests would enter their cabins via a heavy, black-framed doorway. The interior would be made to look much like the craggy inside of a cave, with surfaces rendered in a coarse, beige-coloured plaster.
Rather than standard sofas and chairs, th...
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