Design
Who Wouldn’t Want To Stay At An Oil Rig?
We would! Houston based Morris Architects had a winning entry with this concept to John Hardy Group sponsored Radical Innovation In Hospitality competition. What exactly is the concept? Oil Rig Resort, Spa, and Aquatic Adventure: To convert one of Gulf Coast’s abandoned oil rigs into a resort hotel. How Mad-Maxy!
The architests comment on it saying “In a twist on the symbol of oil dependence, the rig is transformed from obsolete industrial infrastructure into a vibrant component of the biosphere’s ecosystem and a destination for discerning travelers.”
“As the adaptive reuse of an abandoned oilrig,” added John Hardy, president and CEO of the John Hardy Group, “the Rig Resort offers a potentially commercially viable solution to an environmental hazard by providing alternative adventure travel opportunities based on a natural setting, simultaneously creating new jobs previously non-existent in the area.”
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