Doublefile · motel = motor+hotel
Motels are fascinating. It's a kind of non-place, closely related to road-trips, cars and a certain idea of freedom. Doublefile goes throughout this phantasm and suggests a rigorously strange experience: get the car directly inside the room !
Doublefile is located directly on the roadside. The whole site was designed as a fast n' confort break for people travelling by car.
The entrance makes reference to highways' tolls as well as traditional hotels entrance. Customers pass through the reception hall inside their car.
The reception hall allows customers to book a room for the night, possibly a drive-in diner and then they're invited to wash their car.
At the reception, a user's guide is given to every customer, providing orientation and making easier his doublefile experience. This guide can be conveniently hooked on the rearview mirror.
The motor has to be turned off before getting inside the room. Thus, every room's entrance is lightly sloping so that the car can smoothly rolls into the room without using the motor (everyone agrees to say that breathing fumes is definitely not something cool).
The whole room is organized around the car's trunk, so that the luggage stays at hand. There's no need to move everything out of the car for a single night. To leave the room, open the exit door, loose the parking break and go.
The car becomes the main element of the room. It takes up a central position as the symbol of the trip but also as a truly private space, holding all our personal effects. Why should we leave everything on the parking? In a Doublefile room, your car's trunk comes to be the "cupboard" of your room.
The room's furnishings revisits traditional archetypes as the roadside picnic table. Doubelfile's one is made with bright white Corian® and stands on a oak's wooden floor, we're almost there ;)
Why don't you check out this little work process video ?
→ made with swann bourotte, ensci, 2005.
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