Cell Hotel
Sligo Jail is a building that stands proudly in the town of Sligo, embodying important Irish history moments, with a unique curved form. Consequently, the Goal conversion includes a museum share which shares stories of the building’s past with new visitors. The design compares the confined space of a jail cell in which a prisoner would be incarcerated, with confined space of a tree house.
However, tree houses have a strong role in personal childhood memory, they epitomize places of freedom. They are somewhere to escape to rather than escape from, in a natural environment outside the confinement of stone walls. Tree houses leave behind prison bars from the cells and replace them with tree branches. They are places of choice and freedom. Thus, the design highlights contrasting confinements between cell and treehouse, constraint and freedom.
