No. I am not talking about a theme park, although that would be pretty great. As technology increases we try more and more to build structures higher and higher. We keep pushing the limits for as high as the buildings can go. Well there has been a turn for something a little different. Not quite building as high as possible. One man is going the other way with it, and not building into the ground.
Joachim Hauser is the designer of a structure which is called Hydropolis. It is the first underwater hotel, located in Dubai. There is a station at the surface of the water but then there is a train that takes the guests down 66 feet under the surface of the water to the sea floor below. The rooms are shaped like a bubble that is made of glass for looking at the ocean floor. Details put together by the team of designers and safety features of the facility can be found at either
http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/
http://www.gizmag.com/under-the-sea-dubai-underwater-hotel/8505/
It has also been said that Hauser was merely taking a trial run with the underwater hotel. There are rumors of a hotel on the edge of space that Hauser would like to design. Of course that would double the already multimillion dollar bill that was used for Hydropolis. However the main idea is that since Hydropolis was so complicated with it being under water that it would be a similar type of difficulty in outer space. Granted it is different with zero gravity and no oxygen but as far as the next tourist attraction hotel is concerned, a space hotel would be amazing.
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