Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur

The hotel during the time of humans

Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur is a 5-star hotel located near the iconic Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hotel has over 411 rooms, 42 suites, an outdoor bar, 3 restaurants and a gym for its guests. Being located within the proximity of the Petronas Towers, other hotels like the Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur and Four Seasons Place give the luxurious hotel a run for its money. Now with nobody to spend any leftover money, how long can the building keep itself together to survive against the only visitor, Mother Nature?

1 day after people: The power plants scattered across the Klang Valley are failing to keep on producing power, and they begin to fail in rapid succession. As a result, the lights of Kuala Lumpur and the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur power off permanently. The swimming pool no longer has constant fresh water pumped, the nightlife in the bar goes dark and so does the rest of the hotel's facilities. Only the lights of headlights from cars are the only source of light left in Kuala Lumpur.

2 weeks after people: Rodents now check into the luxurious hotel in search of any rotting food in the 3 restaurants of the hotel. They make a mess and fight over food scraps with one another. Meanwhile further up in the swimming pool, a few mosquitos have settled and slowly turn the pristine water of the swimming pool to an infested water full of mosquito larvae. Plants inside the tower die as nobody is able to water them constantly.

1 month after people: Dozens upon dozens of rodents leave the building en masse as they have consumed every morsel of food leftover from the 3 restaurants. A fewer levels up in the swimming pool, the mosquito population has nearly reached the thousands as without any exterminators to kill them, they are able to grow freely without any restriction. The water is now covered in a layer of mosquito larvae waiting to hatch. Meanwhile across the hotel, any plants that were able to have water and light begin to grow across the tower, although causing little to damage the towers.

5 months after people: A river surge caused by heavy rain from the monsoon season rushes towards Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur. As the building is hit, cars swept by the surge smash the windows of the lobby and the furniture inside is washed away by the gush of water. The water also floods the elevator shaft, where no sunlight is able to evaporate the water, weakening the building's foundations over time. The entire building also shakes in the violent winds, causing some loose windows to come crashing down into the flooded, debris-filled streets below. Despite all these, the tower still stands.

1 year after people: Birds have now decided to turn the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur from a hotel to their permanent residence. They inhabit several floors of the building and leave bird poop dropped across the supports of the towers, weakening them. They also fight a bitter war with the mosquitos over the swimming pool, but are unable to make a dent in the mosquitos defenses. They soon pull out from the pool and live on the upper floors of the tower.

15 years after people: The remaining windows of the hotel start to loosen and fall down onto the streets being reclaimed by Mother Nature below. The gym equipment is now beginning to corrode as the hotel rooms and suites are getting a makeover from bacteria and moisture. The elevator shaft is still being weakened by floodwaters that have been unable to evaporate inside the shaft. As a result, the elevator supports begin to corrode due to the high amount of humidity.

50 years after people: Plantlife and decades of corrosion has turned the tower into a towering greenhouse. The interiors have been mostly destroyed, the spa and gym are now left unrecognizable from the constant corrosion. However, the tower has good news to celebrate by itself. The nearby Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur has fallen after a storm and an inferno causes the weakened supports to let the upper part of the tower come crashing down. Now the only major luxurious hotel apart from Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur that is still standing is Four Seasons Place. The race for survival has spiced up.

80 years after people: Four Seasons Place is unable to hold itself any longer after a partial collapse from Maxis Tower has left the supports at a breaking point. The Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur can only watch as the 3rd tallest hotel in the world come crashing down into rubble. Meanwhile at the swimming pool, the supports beneath can't cope the enormous weight any longer. Water starts to leak from the pool into the bottom levels of the hotel, and less than 5 days later, the ceiling underneath the swimming pool gives way, and the entire pools splashes into the ground. The thousands of mosquitos are now left homeless, and leave to seek shelter elsewhere. The main tower still stands over a Kuala Lumpur that is slowly turning back into the jungle it once was.

175 years after people: In Kuala Lumpur, the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur about to succumb to the force of Mother Nature. Decades of greenery growing has infiltrated the many rooms the hotel once had to let visitors rest in, which adds to the unbearable weight of the structure. The supports on the 20th floor give way, creating a pancake effect within the tower and knocking out crucial parts of the steel skeleton, which brings the entire hotel down into what was once KLCC Park. The race for survival is now over, with no true winners from it.