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Get Paid To Live In A Billboard!

OdMEx concept is a billboard house that generates an income.

The design team’s OdMEx House blends outdoor media (ODM) with some low-rent mobile housing by attaching rooms to the back of a billboard. The three-story OdMEx house doesn’t provide a lot of room to move, but is still big enough to accommodate two cars on its ground floor, with the bedroom, living areas, kitchen and bathroom located on the second and third floors.

Oil Rig Hotel & Spa  According to Morris Architects, the Gulf of Mexico has about 4,000 oil rigs of various sizes that will be decomissioned at some point in the next century.  One primary method of rig removal, when the time comes, is explosion — an expensive method that poses hazardous consequences to aquatic life.  So you can see, there’s an opportunity to use existing oil rig structures in a new way.  The Houston office of Morris Architects conceived this plan for a high-end, self-sufficient, eco-friendly hotel experience.  Vertical axis wind turbines would harvest plentiful Gulf of Mexico winds, and wave energy generators could be installed to further power Rig Hotel’s activities.  The concept plan includes some of the following amenities: 300+ guest and luxury suites Conference facility and ballroom for events Fitness center and spa High end dining, shopping, and entertainment Rooftop infinity pool Pro shop and launch for water-based activities Gaming casino and stargazer lounge Dive bell and scuba training Boat launch and boat slips for visitors Rooms are designed as prefabricated, standard cargo containers that perfectly fit the rig platform.  They’re transported out to the rig and unfolded to size.  With the rooms on the exterior of the platform, guests would have practically unparalleled views of the ocean.  

Oil Rig Hotel & Spa 

According to Morris Architects, the Gulf of Mexico has about 4,000 oil rigs of various sizes that will be decomissioned at some point in the next century.  One primary method of rig removal, when the time comes, is explosion — an expensive method that poses hazardous consequences to aquatic life.  So you can see, there’s an opportunity to use existing oil rig structures in a new way. 

The Houston office of Morris Architects conceived this plan for a high-end, self-sufficient, eco-friendly hotel experience.  Vertical axis wind turbines would harvest plentiful Gulf of Mexico winds, and wave energy generators could be installed to further power Rig Hotel’s activities.  The concept plan includes some of the following amenities:

  • 300+ guest and luxury suites
  • Conference facility and ballroom for events
  • Fitness center and spa
  • High end dining, shopping, and entertainment
  • Rooftop infinity pool
  • Pro shop and launch for water-based activities
  • Gaming casino and stargazer lounge
  • Dive bell and scuba training
  • Boat launch and boat slips for visitors

Rooms are designed as prefabricated, standard cargo containers that perfectly fit the rig platform.  They’re transported out to the rig and unfolded to size.  With the rooms on the exterior of the platform, guests would have practically unparalleled views of the ocean.  

UK based Yacht Island outlandish luxury yachting concept “Monaco” has a fully functional go kart track on deck. 

The theme is based around the Mediterranean principality with the primary focus being the famous grand prix circuit. The idea was to recreate the circuit as a fully functional kart track able to accommodate three karts side by side to allow for plenty of overtaking. 

Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti hopes to merge vegetation and urban architecture, with its Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project. The Milan-based firm has designed a model that could see the “reforestation and naturalization” of metropolitan cities, by growing forests sky-ways. “Bosco Verticale [is a] device for the environmental survival of contemporary European cities,” says Stefano Boeri himself.