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Pared-Down "Hostel Edition" Sleepboxes Installed in Moscow Airport

By Rain Noe - September 20, 2011

in Object Culture

[images via Arch Group & Ivanov Ilya]

[images via Arch Group & Ivanov Ilya]

We first reported on the Sleepbox concept back in '09, and now it's finally become a reality. The Sleepbox, designed by Russian architecture and design firm Arch Group, is a rental sleeping chamber designed to populate airports and other transportation hubs in lieu of proper hotel rooms. Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport has installed some trial units, of a "hostel edition" design that differs from the original we posted on.

The rather bare-bones "hostel edition" sleeps two in a bunkbed configuration, has its own ventilation system and provides power and lighting, but lacks the wi-fi, internal vending machine and alarm clock of the standard unit.

We especially like the video that Arch Group has provided of that standard unit, which does a good job of visually and silently revealing all of its features without the bother of having to translate text or voice into different languages:

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Joao ferreira

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Full recovery of the environment. very cool
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Nick

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How does this design combat bedbugs? I can only imagine the high level of bacterial, viral and parasitics this device will carry.
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