The hotel of the future: Rooms delivered by drone?

This year’s two professional finalists each submitted a pop-up concept whereby rooms are set up in hard-to-reach or underutilized spaces.

Driftscape, submitted by the Toronto office of award-winning architecture firm HOK, is a mobile, self-sustaining hotel delivered by drone.

It can be dropped off anywhere, even in the most remote stretches of the planet.
Driftscape consists of several modular units, including a food and beverage element and a single guestroom that offers up 360-degree views.

Paris-based MM Architects, another finalist, submitted a pop-up concept called Nesting, which introduces customizable units which — like Lego bricks — can connect and grow, and be placed into parks and other underfunded public spaces