Glamping, nature with all comforts

From France to the South Pole, "glamping" experiments are multiplying, a new type of five-star campsite that allows you to immerse yourself in the wildest nature Immerse yourself in nature but without sacrificing comfort. It seems that glamping - a fusion of glamour and camping - is a business in great expansion: thanks to extreme urbanization and an increasingly frenetic lifestyle, luxury accommodation facilities are flourishing in bucolic landscapes from South Africa to Norway, from Sri Lanka to Antarctica. And the lowest common denominator - whether it’s stilt houses, tree houses, igloos or houseboats - is an environmentally friendly design, as well as customer comfort.

A trend that is also worth exploring from the point of view of architecture. In Australia, in addition to the new Freycinet Lodge in the namesake National Park (design Liminal Studio) - nine pavilions inspired by the rock formations typical of Tasmania - there are the 16 tents Longitude 131!. in the desert near Ayers Rock (design Max Pritchard Gunner), with starred restaurant, suites furnished as apartments, terraces with circular pools and barbecue, all surrounded by a postcard landscape.

North of Marseille, France, Attrap'Rêves offers five-star rooms enclosed in transparent bubbles in the middle of a forest, with a hot tub and telescope to explore the night sky. In Korea, a few hundred kilometers south of Seoul, the SJCC Glamping Resort offers fifteen 50-square-meter tensile housing units on artificial terraces in the middle of a cypress forest (Atelier Chang). Each unit "translates" the typical tent into a technological structure: steel skeleton and technical fabric cover, with transparent inserts. It looks like a typical "Canadian" but is made of wood, the Nolla Cabin installed on the island of Vallisaari near Helsinki (design Robin Falck). There’s only one prototype so far, but it could be a Nordic-style zero-emissions resort.