A Glimpse at a Building of the Future .

As part of a program related to theoretical design, run by the International Union of Architects, Russian architect Alexander Remizov recently unveiled to the world his vision of what sustainable, eco-friendly hotels may look like in the future.

Assisted by an entire German based engineering and design firm, as well as Lev Britvin, a Moscow based physicist who helped develop energy saving solutions for space stations. Alexander Remizov has produced an inspired design, which he claims allows the hotel to be self sufficient in terms of power, through the use of an ‘integrated energy system with an uniterruptible power supply using alternative energy sources’.

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The Ark, as the design is being called, can be housed on either the land or the sea. The framework should be able to stand strong through earthquakes and choppy waters alike and as the majority of the external parts of The Ark will be made up of special recyclable, self-cleaning plastic panels (instead of glass and steel), minor breakages should prove to be neither life threatening or hard to replace.

The Ark’s design also calls for a lot of plant life to be aboard the ship, which take on the role of The Ark’s oxygenation system. It’s unclear just how necessary the plants are for maintaining air quality (as Alexanders site is in Russian), but even if they where just put there for aesthetic reasons I don’t think anybody would have any reason to complain.

Whilst the building is stunningly beautiful (and very weird by today’s standards), the true genius of the piece comes in the form of it’s theoretical power system. Which would not only use natural renewable energy sources to bolster The Ark’s power levels, but also artificially induce the conditions needed to reap certain types of renewable energy.

It is an incredibly bold vision and quite frankly I don’t know if we will ever see it’s like actually being built. At the moment Remizov and his team are looking for investors who would be willing to actually build and run an Ark, but despite the massive amounts of press they’ve gotten recently, no one has forward with the cash as of yet (at least not publicly).

If it does get built, the power system (if it works) could be the start of a revolution in design. What Remizov is trying to get funded as a hotel could very easily become living accommodation in the future. Though just as with many other inspired pieces of out there architecture it could (and most likely will) just end up as nothing more than a pleasant dream.