If five-star luxury accommodation options are way too mainstream for you, consider this zero star hotel instead. Created by Swiss concept artists Frank and Patrik Riklin, the hotel is essentially just an open-air room where sleep might be impossible. According to the artists, who are twin brothers, it’s meant to be a unique way for people to ponder about the problems plaguing the world, and take action accordingly.
The new project is described by the brothers as an “anti-idyllic version” of their “Null Stern Hotel” concept. Null Stern is German for zero star.
The zero star hotel room in question is titled “Null Stern suite Anti-Idyllic”, and is basically a double-bed set up on a platform. It is located on a roadside next to a petrol station in the village of Saillon, in the Swiss canton of Valais. A mountain can be seen in the distance.
Bedside tables and lamps are placed on either side of the beds. However, a unique feature is that there are no walls, ceiling or doors, which means that there is no privacy and guests sleep under the sky.
“The focus is not on sleep, but on self-reflection on the current world situation. It’s no time to sleep!” the Riklin brothers described in German in an Instagram post.
It is designed for guests who wish to be awakened to the reality of the social, environmental, political and economic issues affecting the people and the planet instead of sleeping soundly unaware of them.
“Sleep is not the point,” Frank Riklin told Reuters, adding, “What’s important is reflecting about the current world situation. Staying here is a statement about the need for urgent changes in society.”
“In a nutshell, now is not the time to sleep, we have to react,” said Patrik.
He added, “If we continue in the same direction we are today, there might be more anti-idyllic places than idyllic.”
According to Reuters, the ‘zero star hotel’ has been developed with hotelier Daniel Charbonnier. There are three more such installations, one on a hillside and two others in the midst of vineyards — which promise a slightly more romantic and restful setting.
Each of them have butler service, with drinks and breakfast. The project opened to guests on July 1 and will be available for bookings until September 18 2022.
Topics for guests to ponder on will range from climate change to wars and everything else that adversely impacts the planet. The cost of the experience will be USD 337.
The Riklins are famed for their artistic, avant-garde projects. One of their recent projects, titled BIGNIK 2022, involved renaming of the St. Gallen railway station to BIGNIK and using over 2,800 red-and-white cloths to cover a part of the historic city’s streets.
Book a night at the zero star hotel here.
(Main and Featured images: Gianluca Colla/via Frank und Patrik Riklin/@riklin_bros/Instagram)
This story first appeared on Lifestyle Asia Kuala Lumpur
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