Pixel hotel
Pixelhotel
Copyright: Dietmar Tollerian
all year 08 and 09
Idea / Concept / Realization: Verein Pixelhotel (Sabine Funk, Michael Grugl, Jürgen Haller, Christian H. Leeb, Richard Steger, Christoph Weidinger)
Where is it possible for guests of the Capital of Culture to bed down for the night and gain an authentic impression of what Linz is really like? At the PIXEL HOTEL, an art and architecture project that offers accommodation of a very special kind. In an analogy to pixels on a screen the rooms of this hotel form the smallest units of the cityscape. Rooms that are unused at present and that are dispersed all over Linz are being adapted for this purpose. Industrial hangars, business premises, council housing. The hotel pixels crop up anywhere.
The café next door is turned into a breakfast buffet, the organic restaurant into a dining room, the suburban pub into a hotel bar. In this way facets of Linz become visible that would normally remain hidden from visitors. With their room key the hotel guests are handed a city map. As they make their way to their destination, they form their first impressions of Linz, which will give them a good idea of the city’s character, its many-sidedness and what it’s like to live here on an everyday basis. In Marienstraße the Pixel Hotel will have the atmosphere of a studio, shop premises in a working-class housing estate will unexpectedly be transformed into a garden in bloom. Ten such scintillating ambiences are planned, which will add a fun factor to feeling at home in Linz.
On our homepage www.pixelhotel.at you will find detailed information on the two pixels that have already been realized; an extensive image gallery that will enable you to form an idea of what the new hotel experience has in store for you: room prices, video streams and direct access to booking – or give us a call: +43 650/7437953!
WHERE //
Marienstraße 10a, Wimhölzlplatz and other locations
A Linz09 project
www.pixelhotel.at
