Among the objects presented were the entertainment center "Ibiza", the cottage village "Barvikha-Club" and the inhabited bridge "MiraxSad", already widely known to the Moscow public. Not without new futuristic projects, such as the project of a hotel hovering over the water in the Persian Gulf called "Airhotel".
The history of "Aerhotel" is rooted in another project of A. Asadov's workshop - the Russian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Shanghai, which received the title of the most avant-garde project in the selection competition. In accordance with all the requirements for the pavilion - it must be assembled quickly, be lightweight and recyclable - the architects proposed the concept of a flying airship-hotel for the Russian delegation, which gathers in Russia and then flies from Moscow through our vast Motherland to Shanghai, where it lands on the already assembled frame structure of the exhibition hall - this event is regarded as the grand opening of the pavilion. After the exhibition, the airship departs and becomes the first prototype of a series of travel hotels.
"Airhotel" is a continuation and development of the theme started by the architects of A. Asadov's workshop in the competition for the Shanghai pavilion. It is conceived as a mooring station for flying hotels and is located above the ocean surface close to the coast. In shape, the "Aerhotel" resembles something like a flying saucer hovering over the water. Along its rim are airship landing strips and hotel rooms. From there, through special crossings, you can get to the center of the "flying saucer", where a green oasis is located, covered with a network of pedestrian paths, which serves as a public space. Hanging gardens fill almost the entire space inside the hotel room ring. The entire structure is raised above the water to the height of a 14-storey building, and rests on a metal frame of three massive and twenty-two thin supports. Near the piers there are berths for visitors' yachts, and above them on the second level there are café terraces.
The very idea of a building raised on pillars is not new. Recall at least the horizontal skyscrapers of El Lissitzky, reclaiming the space of the second tier from the city. "Airhotel" takes space from the sea, but not in the way the Dutch did, draining the coast, or the Japanese, filling the islands, but as if building a whole city above it in the air. It can be understood as an alternative to the alluvial islands, which are more and more in the same Persian Gulf. The islands are expensive, and the structure of the hotel above the water is easy to assemble and consists of light technological materials, which is incomparable in cost to the work to create an artificial island.
True, artificial islands form not just land, but new beaches - it is problematic to swim with a hinged structure (despite the system of pools at the water level). It was not invented for this. This is a fantastic and utopian project, although in our time, if you wish, it is quite possible to build it. Somewhere in Dubai or another major resort, it would look great and could even possibly become one of the "tourist attractions". Without ceasing to be a development of one of the most important themes of the 20th century - the attempts of architecture to go beyond its own limits, for example, by soaring into the sky.
