Is it a hotel? Is it a cruise ship?

The MORPHotel design is a hotel with the ability to adapt. Picture: Gianluca Santosuosso

IT’S a hotel, it’s a cruise ship. Wait. It looks like both.

A London designer has come up with a concept for a futuristic floating hotel that brings new meaning to life on the high seas.

Called the MORPHotel, it’s the brainchild of Gianluca Santosuosso, who envisioned a hotel with the ability to adapt and move with the ocean currents.

The “floatel” ecosystem is developed with a linear, spinal structure about a half a mile in length composed of individually connected capsules that house rooms, restaurants and other luxury facilities, such as a pool. The floating hotel also features a helipad so passengers can fly aboard regardless of where it is in the world.

Guests would get an ever-changing view from their rooms because the craft will be constantly moving across the ocean — but at a rate slower than an average boat.

Guests would get an ever-changing view from their room. Picture: Gianluca Santosuosso

Guests would get an ever-changing view from their room. Picture: Gianluca Santosuosso

At each end, individual pods would be able to detach from the main ‘vertebrae’ — like boats and sail within a fixed distance.

While it’s also designed to be as self staining as possible, with integrated solar panels, rainwater harvesting and a floating vegetable garden, it’s made to tie up at ports using a ‘barycentric dock’ which attaches the hotel to a city’s harbour — allowing it to be an extension of place they’re visiting.

It’s designed with integrated solar panels and rainwater harvesting. Picture: Gianluca Santosuosso

It’s designed with integrated solar panels and rainwater harvesting. Picture: Gianluca Santosuosso

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