Let’s say you have a lot of extra money floating around, and you are sick and tired of staying at regular five star hotels when you are on vacation. As implausible as this situation may seem, in reality Michele Puzzolante could help you, should you ever be lucky enough to find yourself in this position. The Italian industrial designer decided to shake up the five star hotel world by creating something entirely new: a futuristic, pod-like floating hotel.

Both innovative and environmentally conscious, the proposed resort is based on fairly realistic plans. The project would cost $125 million, and would be comprised of a five star hotel as well as additional floating housing units which could house up to six people.

Puzzolante imagined the resort as a bunch of units together, all separate but powered by a common generator that would run purely on solar energy.

The idea may sound ambitious, not only in terms of its luxurious design, but also concerning the ability for such a grand prospect to subsist solely on the environment.

Could the sun really do that?

Puzzolante intends to find out. The designer wrote in a release about the project that there are currently talks in progress which may lead to the actual construction of the resort, reportedly somewhere in the Philippines.

Currently, the project only has visual renderings of the proposed resort and its respective units, available here.

Puzzolante’s press release describes the overall unit as, “not intended for ocean crossing, but to be sufficient for moving to nearby reefs to explore marine life.” So it won’t be a boat, but after reviewing the plans the resort does seem to strike a certain Titanic chord.

The proposed units of the resort will utilize “artificial photosynthesis” for power, by using molecules of chlorophyll to convert light into electrical current. A pilot will be needed to steer the contraption through the ocean by use of propellers on the unit’s underbelly, however.

With over 360 square feet of living space included, as well as a long, semicircular deck adorned with six day beds and a Jacuzzi, one can’t help but hope the project comes to fruition someday, if not just to see it in real life.

Of the many exciting proposed features, the coolest could be the “observation bulb,” a submarine-like underwater enclosed with enough space for six armchairs, most likely included by Puzzolante to aid the exploration of marine life he mentions.

Each “pod” would reportedly cost $1.6 million to build, with the hotel aimed to hold 36 bedrooms, 12 junior suites, four suites and two presidential penthouses.

It is definitely costly, but those who might make the investment can assure themselves that while they may be wasting money, they are saving the environment in the process.

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