Projects > Sleep Set
- London
- Client: UBM/Sleep Hotel Design Event Contractor: Sir Robert McAlpine / Mivan Marine
- Size: 28sqm
- Services: Hotels
Aukett Swanke designed ‘Bivouac’, a 1:1 mock-up of a prototype concept hotel room, which was constructed for the 2016 Sleep Hotel Design Expo.
Designed for a ‘sensation-oriented’ guest, the room fuses architecture and interior design to create an immersive environment, which fully engages the guest’s tactile, visual and acoustic sense of the space.
Incorporating a sleeping area, a social space and bathroom area, the mesh-lined room has an integrated, fully programmable lighting system which, for the show, was set to mimic a circadian cycle, with morning, afternoon and evening settings. The set was constructed off-site and assembled in only three days using seventy two, safely and easily handled, individual modular cassettes which were cut directly from the Revit model.
 "View of the entrance to the Sleep Set")
 "Concept model showing the mesh-lined envelope and terracing of the space")
 "Revit model showing the modular construction and integrated lighting of the set")
 "Perspective plan view of the Revit model with lighting and FF&E")
 "Rendered internal view of the model")
 "Rendered, exploded concept model")
 "View back to social space in the finished room – morning light")
 "View back to social space in the finished room – afternoon light")
 "View back to social space in the finished room – evening light")
 "View back to sleeping area in the finished room")
 "Bathroom in the finished room with the complex faceted, high gloss lacquer wall finish")
 "Guests in the completed room")
 "Concept model of a ‘sensation-oriented’ hotel / camp / festival")