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JAPANESE CAR HOTEL
1995
A conventional car, converted from carriage of passengers to storage of freight. The driver’s seat remains unencumbered; the rest of the car is filled with equipment and machinery.
In the middle of the car is a hydraulic piston, attached to which are stackable beds-&-seat units; a hydraulic pump is stored in the trunk.
The shell of the car is separated and lifted, hydraulically, up off its floor. The shell functions as the roof of a four-story hotel. Each floor consists of a bed, made out of rubber for outdoor use; each bed is formed into a pillow at the head and a seat at the foot; next to each seat is a television, directed toward the floor below. A chain ladder rolls up off a spool at the floor of the car, allowing access to the stories above.
The car is driven through the city, from place to place, from neighborhood to neighborhood, providing a mobile hotel unit whenever is needed, whenever, is wanted.
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