Mosaic

3.19.12 - WATG's Mosaic Prefab Modules Can Be Elegant Hotels or Easy Disaster Shelters
Inhabitat

The team at WATG Architecture has come up with an exciting modular hotel that is flexible and easy to install and transport. Called Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel with Alternative You-ses), the prefabricated modules are portable, reusable and adaptable. The futuristic structures emulate the design of prisms, and can add both design and function to many environments and locations.
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3.14.12 - WATG's young design talent is demonstrated in the Mosaic hotel
World Architecture News

The designers at WATG are always looking for ways to stretch beyond the typical hotel model and look into what hospitality is at its core and how they can influence what it will be in the future. This innovation has manifested itself through concepts such as Haptik Sustainable Suites or the plan for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics
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7.20.11 - Greening the Guest Room
Boutique Design

Innovations in sustainable space plans and product choices make boutique hotel rooms easy on the eye and the Earth. Designers predict that a closer collaboration among owners, vendors and their teams will expand the opportunities for making guest rooms both more eco-conscious and more visually arresting. In-house design charrettes definitely spend more time discussing owners' and operators' requirements for green issues than even a few years ago. Says Krystal Solorzano, a designer at WATG, "We're going to see a new wave of designers entering the industry who will bridge the gap between manufacturers and designers which, we think, will create even stronger, more efficient design."
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4.26.11 - Radical Innovation Comes to Life at HD Expo
Hospitality Design

The 2011 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) marks the first time that a previous conceptual Radical Innovation winner debuts as a full-scale model—and the first time the competition would generate a new hospitality concept. The 2010 winner, called Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses), designed by WATG, will be open for walk-throughs on Upper Level Sands Lobby.
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3.31.11 - Design to the Rescue
Interior Design Magazine

Mining for work in Africa and other developing regions, designers at Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo recognize the rising value of flexible, modular building systems. How about a single unit that can serve as emergency housing for disaster victims or a pop-up suite for a luxury hotel chain exploring new destinations? That question led to the development of the Mosaic PATHWAY, standing for Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses. WATG entered Mosaic in the Radical Innovation competition, part of the Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference in Las Vegas, and Mosaic emerged victorious. As WATG chief information officer Larry Rocha points out, "Winning offers branding opportunities." Plus, the firm is using its prize money, $10,000, to build a functional prototype appearing in HD in May. The beta model was in wood; for the 2.0 version, the team ultimately settled on aluminum-framed foam core surfaced with semigloss white plastic laminate resistant to stains and scratches.

Of course, designers at a firm that nicknames its acronym with We Always Think Green intend Mosaic to leave no footprint, regardless of location. Anything needed for a particular site can be shipped in the system's containers.
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3.08.11 - Mosaic PATHWAY by WATG
FX Magazine

Mosaic Pathway (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) is a versatile modular building that can be used as a hotel, holiday home, temporary shelter or field hospital in almost any environment. Designed to respond to the fact that some 250,000 people are affected by natural disasters each year and aimed at both the public and private sectors, Mosaic Pathway is created from geometric prisms with built-in fixtures and furnishings, self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting systems and self-leveling foundations.
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2.15.11 - Hotels of the future
British Airways

The old adage 'waste not, want not' will figure large in hotel construction, furnishing and staffing decisions. Instead of constructing and maintaining buildings that have only occasional use, hoteliers will take advantage of modular construction, pods and flat-packs to add and remove space as required. This might be tricky on a daily basis, but we can expect to it work seasonally. It's a sign of the times that destination design firm WATG won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for Mosaic, a system of collapsible geometric-shaped prisms complete with fixtures, fittings and self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting.
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2.15.11 - Hospitality Design Calls for 2011 Radical Innovation Competition Entries
Contract Magazine

Hospitality Design (HD) magazine, currently is accepting entries to its fifth annual Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition. The annual program, which is co-founded by The John Hardy Group and HD, aims to push the limits of global A&D thought leadership by challenging individual designers, design teams, brands, and design students to submit their most radically innovative hospitality projects that incorporate new concepts and enhance the guest experience.

Past Radical Innovation winners include: WATG's Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative YOUses); Pixel Hotel; and The Rig Hotel.

Entry form and complete details are available here. Deadline for entries is March 1.
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1.21.11 - Architype Dialogue presents Krystal Solorzano
ArchitypeReview

What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project?

The essence of Mosaic was created while developing our entry for the 2010 Radical Innovation in Hospitality design competition, which WATG has entered every year since its inception in 2007. The competition allows us as designers to stretch beyond the typical hotel model and look into what hospitality is at its core and how we can influence what it will be in the future...
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1.03.11 - Radically practical innovations: Hospitality design ideas
Hotel Yearbook

The hospitality design world has not been known for embracing dramatic structural changes.

«But the future could be different,» says Howard J. Wolff, Senior Vice President at WATG in Honolulu. He shares with us here some fascinating approaches to three particular challenges that the hotel industry faces and may even find opportunities to implement using design solutions in 2011 and beyond.
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10.18.10 - EON Reality Enables WATG to Explore Their Award-Winning Mosaic Design in an Icube Environment
Marketwire

EON Reality, the world's leading interactive 3D software provider, recently hosted WATG, the world's leading hospitality design firm, for an immersive design exploration of their innovative Mosaic project. Using EON's interactive display solution, EON Icube, WATG was able to visually immerse the design team and potential clients in an interactive tour of their design.

WATG's Mosaic allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, and private organizations the opportunity to create, design, develop and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography.
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9.22.10 - Want a Hotel Room in a Really Remote Place? Can Do!
NewsMax

Tempted to sign on to one of those do-gooder "voluntourism" vacations - but you're a little shaky because reports suggest the accommodations are decidedly one-star in the distant village you'd like to help get back on its feet? Your concerns have been heard. A Hawaiian architecture firm called WATG, which specializes in high-end resort hotels and housing around the globe, has come up with a design that will allow you to travel into the wild without having to encounter the wilderness. The folks at WATG refer to this kind of architecture as pop-up hospitality. In no time, where previously there was squalor and rats, one can have rather swanky hotel-like space. The housing, which WATG says was inspired by disaster shelters, comes delivered to the site as a pre-fabricated units, with lighting fixture, plumbing, and furninshings all pre-installed.

8.16.10 - Radical Design
Lodging Magazine

What is Mosaic? Lodging discussed the winner of the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition winner with its designers, Jerod Costner, Krystal Solorzano, and Karen Mitri of WATG.
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8.13.10 - Thinking Big
Hospitality Design

Grand Prize Winner: Mosaic
The team from Irvine, California-based WATG-Krystal Solorzano, Jerod Costner, and Karen Mitri-wowed the judges with their submission of Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) an outgrowth of temporary relief shelter that delivers affordable, pop-up multi-use hospitality, but sealed the deal with the audience with their dynamic presentation.
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7.20.10 - Pop-up hotel wins 'radical innovation' award
Hotelier Middle East

Destination design firm WATG has won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for its entry Mosaic.

The Mosaic Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses (PATHWAY) allows governments, hoteliers, private organisations and charities the opportunity to create pop-up shelter and support structures which have a range of uses from emergency shelter to vacation housing.
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6.28.10 - Pop-Up Hospitality
Lodging Magazine

WATG's portable hotel concept takes first place in radical design contest.

In the hospitality industry, there have been designs for pop-up, modular hotels. These types of designs have often been developed to offer hoteliers the opportunity to erect new hotels in a cost-effective and quick manner. But it's conceivable that future pop-up hotels will have to be even more flexible.

WATG invented Mosaic's portable, adaptable, modular system of "prisms"-which are singular units of accommodations that can be outfitted as needed as spas, salons, guest-rooms, mini-homes, or tented villas. At HD Expo 2010 in Las Vegas in May, Mosaic was named the winner of the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Competition, which is co-founded and produced by Hospitality Design Group and the John Hardy Group to promote innovation and global thought-leadership in hospitality. The contest awards a $10,000 prize.
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7.16.10 - Planet People: At WATG, green is a lifestyle, a culture, a business
Boutique Design July+August

WATG's Grace McClurg, Shaun Hannah, Rashana Zaklit and Krystal Solorzano on the cover of the July+August issue of Boutique Design.

Like many twenty- and thirtysomethings and like their colleagues at WATG, Solorzano, business development systems coordinator, and Zaklit and McClurg, interior designers, are determined to make eco-consciousness a front-burner issue in hospitality design. They're well aware they're going to have to do a lot of groundwork to make that happen, as does their fellow environmentalist Shaun Hannah, WATG's director of sustainability.
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6.04.10 - Mosaic PATHWAY by WATG scoops top honor at Radical Innovation in Hospitality contest
World Construction Network

Mosaic PATHWAY, a versatile open source hospitality solution integrated with organic prisms, designed by destination design practice WATG, has won the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition.

The organic, geometric-shaped prisms of the Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) system are modular and can be dismantled to enable easy transportation. The prisms are designed with built-in fixtures and furnishings, as well as energy, lighting and plumbing systems and self-leveling foundations. When configured individually, modular prisms can be outfitted as spas, salons, guestrooms, mini-homes or tented villas. Mosaic prisms can also be attached organically to Mosaic hubs that comprise lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, and other amenities.
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6.04.10 - Mosaic PATHWAY by WATG scoops top honor at Radical Innovation in Hospitality Contest
World Interior Design Network

The organic, geometric-shaped prisms of the Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) system are modular and can be dismantled to enable easy transportation. The prisms are designed with built-in fixtures and furnishings, as well as energy, lighting and plumbing systems and self-leveling foundations. When configured individually, modular prisms can be outfitted as spas, salons, guestrooms, mini-homes or tented villas. Mosaic prisms can also be attached organically to Mosaic hubs that comprise lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, and other amenities.
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6.04.10 - WATG's Mosaic Wins Grand Prize in Competition for Radical Innovation in Hospitality
HSMAI Connect

Destination design firm WATG won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for their entry, Mosaic. The award, which was founded by The John Hardy Group and co-sponsored by Hospitality Design, recognizes ingenuity in built or unbuilt hospitality concepts. Thirty projects from eight countries were submitted by hospitality brands, design and consulting professionals, and students.
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6.04.10 - WATG's Mosaic Wins Grand Prize in Competition for Radical Innovation in Hospitality
hospitality.net

Destination design firm WATG won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for their entry, Mosaic.

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to create, design, develop and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography.
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6.03.10 - WATG's Mosaic Wins Grand Prize in Competition for Radical Innovation in Hospitality
Hospitality Architecture + Design

Destination design firm WATG won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for their entry, Mosaic. The award, which was founded by The John Hardy Group and co-sponsored by Hospitality Design, recognizes ingenuity in built or unbuilt hospitality concepts. Thirty projects from eight countries were submitted by hospitality brands, design and consulting professionals, and students.

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to create, design, develop and implement amazing new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography. The organic, geometric-shaped Prisms of the PATHWAY system are collapsible for ease in transportation, are pre-fitted with built-in fixtures and furnishings, and come with self-contained energy, plumbing and lighting systems and self-leveling foundations.
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5.31.10 - WATG wins hospitality design award
Hotel Management Asia

Global design firm WATG has won first place in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality competition for its entry, Mosaic.

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) allows governments, developers, entrepreneurs, hoteliers, private organizations, and charitable aid societies the opportunity to design and develop new hospitality, vacation, housing, emergency shelter and support structures that are functional, beautiful, simple and adaptable to numerous situations in almost any geography.
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5.30.10 - WATG Wins Radical Innovation in Hospitality Design Competition
+ Mood

The design firm WATG won first place in the 2010 Radical Innovation in Hospitality Competition for their entry, Mosaic. The award, which was founded by The John Hardy Group and co-sponsored by Hospitality Design, recognizes ingenuity in built or unbuilt hospitality concepts. There were more than 30 entries from eight different countries.
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5.31.10 - Mosaic Pathway - Popup Hotels of the Future
Uptake Hotels

The Mosaic PATHWAY (Portable Adaptable Temporary Hotel With Alternative You-ses) hotel design from design firm WATG won the Radical Innovation in Hospitality award at the recently concluded HD Expo in Vegas.

WATG says it can be used for adventure travel and voluntourism vacations where you can combine a vacation with volunteer work or disaster relief
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5.27.10 - Design Crime: New Luxury Hotel is a Five-Star Disaster Shelter
Fast Company

The designers, WATG, call it pop-up hospitality. You know like pop-up shops, pop-up cafes, and, of course, pop-up relief shelters. Modular units, which they say resemble prisms (and we say resemble melting ice cubes), are pre-fabricated with plumbing, lighting fixtures, and furnishings, so you can throw them up in a snap. Then, you can configure them any which way: as spas, salons, guestrooms, mini-homes, restaurants, bars, tented villas, you name it! If a rich person wants it, they can do it!
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5.25.10 - Radical Innovation Winner Selected
Hospitality Design

WATG has taken home the $10,000 grand prize for the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Competition finals via a real-time vote at the 2010 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) in Las Vegas.
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5.20.10 - Mosaic's Pop-Up Design Wins 'Radical Innovation' Award at the HD Expo
Hotel Chatter

When people talk about the "hotel room of the future," the conversation often involves outlandish designs, impossible architecture and unthinkable locations (space, undersea, atop a waterfall, etc.) So it's super-refreshing to hear that this year's Radical Innovation in Hospitality was awarded yesterday at the Hospitality Design Expo to an affordable, pop-up hotel room design called Mosaic from prolific design firm WATG.
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5.05.10 - Radical Innovation Finalists Selected
Hospitality Design

The firms Seymourpowell, WATG, and Weetu have trumped the field of entries to vie for top honors in the Radical Innovation in Hospitality Competition finals, May 19th at 12:15 pm, at the 2010 Hospitality Design Exposition & Conference (HD Expo) in Las Vegas. A real-time vote by the HD conference audience will determine the winner of the $10,000 grand prize. Mosaic An outgrowth of temporary relief shelter, the global Mosaic brand defines and delivers affordable, pop-up hospitality—prefabricated and portable to virtually anywhere. WATG invented Mosaic as entirely flexible, comprised of individually configured, modular Prisms, outfitted as needed as spas, salons, guestrooms, mini-homes (multiple Prisms such as kitchenette and bedrooms), or tented villas (an addition to a luxury resort at peak season). Grouped together, Mosaic Prisms are attached organically to Mosaic Hubs that comprise and contain lobbies, restaurants, bars, lounges, and other amenities. WATG's pop-up concept allows for discovery and adventure in new locations, and provides modular and flexible guest accommodations at existing properties to capture additional peak-season business. For adventure travel and "voluntourism," hybrid vacation and volunteer work experience, Mosaic Hubs and Prisms accommodate volunteers and then remain as housing for local communities. Mosaic is a trusted global brand, yet offers experiences that can be fresh and flexible.
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