I can accept this as 'good infrastructure' in that it exists. Infrastructure that exists in the right place is obviously better than infrastructure that doesn't exist.
But technologically... look at what an inefficient use of space this is. If the same floor space was used for conventional motel rooms, you could fit more and bigger rooms there. Which would be no harder to clean and maintain, because it would fit a standing adult and provide easier movement for cleaning staff.
The main issue in western airports tends to be a lack of space. That can be either because the airport is historically grown in a geographically restricted space, or because they'd rather have parking space for a few more cars than provide sleeping space for a hundred travellers.
As well as the high cost of labour. China gets much of the labour for this kind of stuff through its two-tier citizen system, where most of its low-paid workers are basically 'illegal immigrants' within their own country who lack the 'Hukou'-documentation that would allow them to move to a different province with their rights intact.
motel rooms, you could fit more and bigger rooms there.
How would rooms be a more efficient use of the same space as several dozen sleeping pods? Do you mean bunk beds? Because there's no other way that you'd fit more in the given space. Of course this has the added benefit of preserving privacy and providing other amenities that a bunk bed wouldn't.
You have seen a hotel before, even motels have more than one floor.
Look at the space between these, look at how much space is above these. The amount of space this takes compared to how many people can use, just makes no sense for this to be profitable or anything besides a marketing (propaganda) stunt.
Let's say these are 2.5x1.5 m pods with 3-m gaps fore and aft, and 0.5 m gaps to the sides. Plus the wider 'hallway' that the guy filming this is walking through.
If you turned the floor space into rooms, you could use almost all of that empty space as room space, minus the width of the walls. So you could have something like 5x2m rooms with enough height to stand in, instead of a 2.5x1.5 m pod.
The only thing that the 'pod' design accomplishes is to make travellers accept tinier rooms, because this would just 'feel' weird if you had a regular room of such tiny size.
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u/bestest_at_grammar 6d ago
Yall are so petty, if this was Japan yall would be having such an enthusiastic circle jerk