Boutique Hotel Built From Airstream Trailers
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01. 6.09
The Grand Daddy Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa just added a rooftop trailer park, with each classic Airstream customized by local artists. PSFK writes that "Each of the polished chrome trailers sleep two people, and are embellished with design themes that include, among others, polka dots and The Three Bears. The customisation is worked in throughout all the facilities (including bathrooms) required for the hotel to earn a 4 Star hotel rating."
Watch a four minute trailer of the trailers
Not much information on their site yet, but this is an idea worth emulating, given the amount of empty roofspace around. via PSFK
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Aluminum, not chrome. LIghtweight, easily formed, "age of aviation" material.
Energy use per floors pace will be much higher in these than a well constructed hotel, but the floor space is much smaller than a typical hotel room. I wonder which wins in the end?
Yawn... already been done - Shady Dell RV Park Bisbee AZ. (http://www.theshadydell.com/)
And they have Dots Diner - the pie is worth the trip by itself....