The EXODUS project seeks to break the traditional distance between private and public realm: the circulation space, and bridge the most public and most private with immediate visibility and access. EXODUS is a hotel tower with moving hotel rooms and mix of public and hotel facilities. It is anticipated as a prototype for later application on other communal program such as residential and office. The EXODUS grants mobility to each hotel room; they are designed as self-sustained capsules and movable along a vertical and horizontal steel structure. With the press of a button at each room, the room-capsule would move onto the public-podium level and park adjacent to their desire facilities. Novel spatial enjoyment is introduced, with out the traditional circulation space. Residents are within footsteps from their beds to the swimming pool; the hotel restaurant is consisted of only the kitchen and a circulation corridor for gourmet to be delivered directly into the room capsule; residents can enjoy the spa treatment at their rooms after they parked their room along the Spa Center. This immediacy offers one the illusion his/her ownership over the public space; one’s spatial extension become un limited. Technological innovation of the EXODUS intends to enrich our experience of communal living, while to mini mize its building footprint by inverting the podium over the tower; the hotel facilities are arranged in ring-shape to avoid casting shadow on street level. The tower is accessible to the public through Express Elevator on ground level or mountain level; Observatory deck with café is located on top of the circular-box-beam structure.

Project completed at the Master studio Transient Values at University of Hong Kong, 2010
Tutor: Ole Scheeren, Steven Lee