The Journey: Vehicles Routes Map

The Journey

The Pod: a Cable Car

Sorry about the low quality, for some reason iMovie kept coming up with an error code when I tried to export the actual clip, so I decided just to film the film with my camera... I'll upload the actual (much better quality) clip once I figure out why it is not exporting.
Unfortunately when I google the particular error code (-50) it seems that other iMovie users are just as stumped as I am.
Well, I'm sure there's a way around it... anyway, I think we will show the clip on iMovie rather than this blog at the Peer review yesterday, so that our concept is actually clear.

Our concept

One must want to escape in order to use the cable car. Escape from a dystopian reality to a utopian hotel.

Manually operated, it could take days to travel from Auckland to Waiheke.

Equipped with beds and food, the pod accommodates this.

There are island stops along the way for rest- but those who truly want to escape will not stay long.

Where there are more than one person travelling, communal living becomes the only option. The pod is a small space, which you must share with any others wanting to use it. There is no privacy in the pod.

Small in comparison to the pulley, the pod floats between them. Just like the structure is expressed in some modern architecture, the mechanism is expressed in the cable car; the large and rough pulleys on either side of the small pod.

How far would you go to escape?

The Jellyfish Lantern

The Jellyfish Lantern flies between the two hotels.

Open. Free. Uplifting.

A positive journey where you can experience everything.

A bright light in the sky. Glowing.

Hope where there is darkness.

City Inspired Hotel

A1 Hotel Presentation

Here is our finished hotel presentation ready for our silent crit on Tuesday. By silent crit I mean that we pin this up, then leave the room without talking about it! So hopefully the presentation itself is relatively self-explanatory. This poster is then combined with our two Bim X models of our hotels to be looked at by some masters students.

Waiheke inspired hotel

Here is evidence of our finished ArchiCAD model of our Waiheke inspired hotel idea.