Danielle Lehmann: Looking Out Week 9

Here is another tree house installment, this time by Inrednin Gsgruppen. This tree house looks like a giant nest resting on three existing trees in Sweden. It's called the Bird Nest and it's a part of the Swedish Tree Hotel, which actually consists of many different types of tree houses which have several separate bedrooms. This hotel has five rooms inside its cozy branch covered walls. The only way to get up into the hotel is to climb a ladder - the likes of which can be retracted into the nest to complete its nest-like appearance (and to keep out anyone who may be unwanted). The hotel is a cylinder disguised by hundreds of fallen tree branches that were collected for the facade. There are a few windows in the hotel that are more alike to portholes then full blown windows. From the outside one can barely see them, but from inside they give the traveler a very unique perspective on the world that is suddenly underneath them. Myself and the moose in the elevation drawing aren't the only ones intrigued by this hotel because twenty more of these Bird Nest Hotels are to appear over the next two years.