It's interesting. It's even strangely beautiful. But every time I see these modern portable/modular/whatever structures, I think you'd have to a cyborg to want to be inside for any prolonged amount of time. Wouldn't you start to feel like a hamster? A cyborg hamster?

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They put down all those aggregate pavers for a temporary structure? And the railings,maaurs...all part of the portable package?

I just wonder how much of this really gets packed up and reused elsewhere.

Not sure what happened there, but that should have read " and the railings and stairs".

I wonder about the insulation and ventilation.

I've seen them being used as university dorms in France and Holland though, so maybe they are more comfortable than first impressions indicate -- i.e., that it would be awful to sit in an enclosed tin can baking in the sun.

I find them quite ugly and lacking in windows but extremely practical and functional as temporary accommodation. If you add decent common areas and just use the individual rooms as sleeping and storage it would be fine for short term use. Whatever event you're at would be the attraction, not the hotel itself, apart from the novelty factor first time around.

this looks like a prison cell to me, what about window? Sorry, the close up of a faucet is not selling me on the design.

hmm recycling...for temporary housing maybe?
The outside does not appeal to me and I would be afraid to bump my head if i would sleep in the bottom bed.

I think it's a brilliant idea for event accommodations! Security at the Olympics... they are undoubtedly out doing their jobs, then out having fun, then ready to sleep -- and this gives them reasonable comfort at low cost when otherwise insufficient bedrooms would be available. (And this is at the Olympics, people -- they aren't going to do a shabby installation for all the world to see! Pavers could easily be reused, mostly they are set in sand, and the stairs and railing are probably part of the units; maybe they get removed for shipping. Look at the photo of the truck...)

Turning containers into portable kitchen is fine, but living in one sounds completely dreadful. Lack of insulation, aeration, and windows must be very cave like and noisy inside. I suppose there's a different adobe for everyone, but these look depressing to live in and look at.

For a short period of time, like the Olympics, these are genius! Nobody would be spending much time in there, so they wouldn't miss having a window (assuming there are none; hard to tell).

I checked out their website; it says they can deliver and set up a hotel of 40-400 rooms within 48 hours, by road, rail, air or sea. Sounds pretty amazing. The virtual tour kind of reminds me of the suite-type accommodations on trains, only much cooler design.

This idea is used across the work for Oil and Gas rig/camp accommodation. You can shift the whole camp in less than 24 hours. That is, of course, just what it looks like to me!