Hospitality management group栖息地has raised $20m to expand their concept of “social” beach huts. The addition of an unspecified 3D printing technology has also raised eyebrows.
A recent profile by theFinancial Times揭示了项目的支持者包括Uber的联合创始人Travis Kalanick和Tinder的联合创始人Justin Mateen和在伪造的Bohemian Hippy Fest见面的“ Brains Trust”，燃烧的人。
The Mexican resort operated by Habitas is the first step in a global vision and set to create highly instagrammable “experiences” based vacations. Reviewing the marketing paraphernalia and associated aspirational hashtags it is hard not to recall another tropical venture favored by influencers, Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival.
Investor base as “brains trust”
Oliver Ripley, co-founder of Habitas said he spent six months building the investor base, expecting to act as a “brains trust” as the hotel company expands. Besides the co-founders of Uber and Tinder, Div Turakhia, the Indian ad-tech billionaire and other entrepreneurs, like Tim Steiner, chief executive of online supermarket Ocado and technology investors Maurice Salem, Shervin Pishevar, Mike Novogratz and Jonathan Teo are backing the project of Habitas.
重点将是千禧年的游客for a social holiday rather than a “fancy lobby”, according to Ripley. The co-founder said the concept is
“a little bit like Club Med for our generation. Incredible experiences with food, with music, with the right kind of wellness — not the fanciest spa but really just reconnecting.”
“Building something for the soul”
酒店管理集团的栖息地已经在墨西哥图卢姆建立了住宿。在他们的帆布墙帕拉帕斯（Beach Palapas）中度过了一个夜晚 - 据说与大自然共存，并将其承诺与#StayPlasticfree相匹配 - 花费200-400美元。里普利说，尽管重点不是房间，而是建立人类的互动和情感联系。
The idea of the Habitas hotels born out of Burning Man, Ripley向WWD解释，里普利（Ripley）在那里建立了一个针对VIP与会者的营地。“对我们来说，真正重要的不是房间内部发生的事情，而是房间外发生的事情，我们真的在为灵魂建立东西。”因此TripAdvisor.
“我们像乐高一样组装它们”
To expand, founders of Habitas decided to invoke the headline-grabbing power of additive manufacturing technology. To build their hotel rooms, Ripley states, Habitas follows a modular housing technique, using the aforementioned “3D printing technology”. The company flat-packs the basic structures of the rooms and ships them to the final location. According to Ripley, they can manufacture about 100 rooms per month. The company’s co-founder expects the hotels to be constructed within six to nine months, and earn a return on investment within two years.
By the end of the year, Habitas co-founder Oliver Ripley already plans to have eight locations for their lightweight hotels. One in Namibia, where they would open a hotel this month. Ripley also visited Bhutan and Saudi Arabia with similar intentions, he would like to bring their concept to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
3D printed homes against the housing crisis?
Using 3D printing technology to fasten the building process has reached a landmark in Singapore, where NTU and Sembcorp researchersprinted concrete bathroom units在不到12个小时内。
For sustainability reasons, Italian 3D printer manufacturerWASPcollaborated withMario Cucinella Architects（MCA）3D print a model for sustainable global habitat，这可以适应任何气候。研究人员探索了无家可归的原因和影响，以及技术进步的潜力，以帮助实现合适的解决方案，保持节能。
Texas-based construction technologies companyICONis about toreinvent the construction of affordable homeswith the use of 3D printers. The company intends to draw up a solution for the global housing crisis, collaborating with a non-profit organization新故事，与无家可归的人通过3D printing houses in Latin America. The first set of homes have already been3D printed in Tabasco, Mexico.
栖息地did not reply to a request for comment.
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Featured image shows Habitas Room in Tulum, Mexico. Photo by Adrian Gaut.
