Subterranean hotel
OwnerFrederick William Scherbauerinventor
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Abstract
A subterranean hotel is provided which includes, in one embodiment, a first row of subterranean atrium hotel rooms, a second row of subterranean atrium hotel rooms, a first row of patio hotel rooms, and a second row of patio hotel rooms. The atrium hotel rooms and the patio hotel rooms may be located at least in part below the ground surface (i.e., below a grade) on at least one subterranean floor level. The subterranean hotel may include an intermediate atrium that abuts with the atrium hotel rooms such that the first row of the atrium hotel rooms may be spaced from the second row of the atrium hotel rooms by the intermediate atrium.
Claims14
A subterranean hotel, comprising:
- a first row of subterranean atrium hotel rooms located on a first subterranean floor level;
- a second row of subterranean atrium hotel rooms located on the first subterranean floor level and spaced from the first row of atrium hotel rooms by an intermediate atrium having at least one atrium window configured to allow natural light to pass through the at least one atrium window from outside the subterranean hotel to an interior of the intermediate atrium,
- each of the first and second rows of atrium hotel rooms having a respective floor, an opposite ceiling and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the floor and the ceiling, wherein one of the plurality of sidewalls located adjacent the intermediate atrium of each of the first and second rows of atrium hotel rooms includes at least one atrium window configured to allow natural light to pass through the at least one atrium window from the intermediate atrium to an interior of the atrium hotel room;
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- a first row of subterranean patio hotel rooms located on the first floor level and spaced from the first row of subterranean atrium hotel rooms in a direction away from the intermediate atrium by a first elongated hallway, each of the first row of patio hotel rooms having a respective floor, an opposite ceiling and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the floor and the ceiling;
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- at least one first outside window well located externally of at least a portion of a perimeter of the subterranean hotel that interfaces with the first row of subterranean patio hotel rooms,
- wherein one of the plurality of sidewalls located adjacent the first outside window well of each of the first row of patio hotel rooms includes at least one first patio window configured to allow natural light to pass through the at least one first patio window from the first outside window well to an interior of the patio hotel room.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.