A french designer, Matalie Crasset, created this "hospitality tower" called "When James comes to Paris". It's for people who receive friends and don't know where let them slip. It was inspired by the cramped studio apartements of Paris and is designed to make overnight guest feel welcome, even when the host has a minimum amount of place to offer.
This is a reaction to our mobile life style. In our society we travel a lot thanks to fast transportation and meet people living far from our home. This is very normal to go see them and travel cheaper in the same time, particulary in the student life. This tower offers a place to sleep to friends when they come to visit.
When the tower is open it offers a mattress to sleep, but Matalie Crasset has considered other needs, a personnal lamp and an alarm clock. When it is closed the tower occupies a small place. It can be stocked in a corner until the next friend comes. It fits perfectly to the student's accommodations.
It shows that we more mobile and we use our friend network to socialize and travel, so a new need appears, how to receive friends temporarily. The solution is to change the space to receive them, the column is a example of adaptability system.
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