#3: Modular Room Construction
The 1970s design world was obsessed with prefabrication and efficiency, and even Disney wasn’t safe from its alluring invitation to do more with less. In a highly ambitious experiment, the hotel’s guest rooms were constructed off-site at a U.S. steel facility and then craned into the A-frame structure like drawers sliding into a dresser. Though this technique was meant to pave the way for a new future in hotel design, Disney Resorts never replicated the technique.
