Luxury Accommodation at Ayers Rock
Every year, some 400,000 tourists come to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory of Australia. Most of them set out on a bumpy bus journey in the early morning to experience the site at sunrise. The present project is designed to allow some visitors to enjoy this magnificent spectacle under exclusive conditions. Ten kilometres north-west of the rock, 15 luxurious tourist lodgings have been erected along a sand dune, providing protection against the scorching heat. Each of the braced steel-and-glass structures is anchored in the ground and raised roughly 2.5 m above the flowing surface of the sand on eight steel columns. The box-like pavilions are protected by tent roofs consisting of three layers of fabric. All the dwellings possess a large picture window which affords a view of the rock.
