No One Will Ever Find Me in This Camouflaged Treehouse Hotel

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  02.18.09 | 1:32 PM ET

Not sure if this idea is crazy or brilliant, but I’m not surprised that it came from eco-chic Scandinavia. The Swedish architecture firm Tham & Videgard Hansson have designed a lightweight treehouse hotel with a mirrored exterior that reflects the forest around it. The mirrored cube is supposed to be invisible, but with a full set of living quarters inside, including a bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette and even a roof terrace. (But a warning to the dainty eco-poseurs: scaling up here via rope ladder or rope bridge is not for the matched luggage set; pack a backpack instead.)

So, I had to wonder: What if the camouflage is too good? And, say, unwitting sparrows heading for the illusory trees collided with the mirrors? Not so eco-friendly after all? No worries, the architects say. They will equip the glass with special stickers that only birds can detect.

Freaky? Fabulous? Visionary? What do you think? (Via Environmental Graffiti and Treehugger)

Tags: Architecture, Design, Eco Travel, Hotels, Europe, Sweden, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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