This year's Radical Innovation in Hospitality Design award winner is design firm WATG for its Mosaic project. The grand prize of $10,000 was awarded on May 19th after a real- time vote at the 2010 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (
HD Expo) in Las Vegas.
Co-founded and co-produced by the Hospitality Design Group (HD Group) and the John Hardy Group (JHG), the Radical Innovation award promotes innovation and global thought-leadership in hospitality. A panel of industry experts selects the finalists prior to voting.
The three 2010 finalists included:
Project: Mosaic (Winner)
Design Firm: WATG (Krystal Solorzano, Karen Mitri, Jerod Costner)
Project: Aircruise (First runner-up)
Design Firm: Seymourpowell (Nick Talbot)
Project: Trespass
Design Firm: Weetu (Carly Cannell, Jorge Orozco-Cordero, Kevin Estrada, Carmen Cervantes, Daniel Knobloch, and Maron Demissie)
Honorable Mention and Special Awards were also awarded as follows:
Project: The Energy Hotel (Student Honorable Mention)
Designer: Jessica Lane, Abilene Christian University
Project: Hotel 15 (Judges' Special Award)
Design Team: Aleksandra Furman, Manuel Navarro, Ryan Ross (students at Harrington College of Design)
Project: Ecological Hotel (Honorable Mention)
Design Firm: Bluarch Architecture & Interiors (Antonio Di Oronzo)
About Mosaic
Prefabricated and portable to virtually anywhere in the world, the Mosaic Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative Uses (PATHWAY) can be configured in a virtually unlimited number of ways to, in the words of WATG, "enable governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to create, design, develop, and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter, and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple, and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography".
The Mosaic units are collapsible for transportation ease and are pre-configured with built-in energy, plumbing, and lighting systems, as well as furnishings and self-leveling foundations.
WATG's Mosaic Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative Uses (PATHWAY)
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WATG's Mosaic solution for affordable, prefabricated and portable hospitality and the company that designed it.