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Samuel Timothy Lewis m: [phone] e: [email protected] Hotel Elixir Based in Shoreditch, Hotel Elixir provides a Hotel for the upper class whilst providing a stepping ladder for the homeless offering a second chance to feel limitless. By providing work, living an d6 month limitless plan to encourage the user to move on in the future with skills and opportunities. While catering for the homelessness, the rich & everyone can enjoy the luxuries of the Market, Italian styled kitchen on level 8 which transforms into a salsa dance floor at night & luxury styled rooms. The flowing timber structure forms a canopy for the market area with a ETFE tensile netting becoming a water harvesting system to run the entire building. The Organic facade shape inspired by a simple Pine-cone allow plenty of light & allows greenery to be grown in-between the aluminium framing all over forming a certain pattern to allow light, air flow, acoustics. Shoreditch high street E1 6HU 146