Youth Hostel Gerlos 

lechner & lechner architects 

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Gerlos青年旅舍 “位于奥地利阿尔卑斯山海拔1700米的Hochkrimml村。滑雪运动在奥地利社会中根深蒂固，是学校教学的一部分。该项目旨在使学校在生态环境中的旅行更加经济实惠。这就是为什么酒店是用地区木材建造的实木结构，酒店采用生物质区域供暖，电力来自于光伏发电，旅途中不使用个人交通工具，而主要使用大巴，运输交叉层压木墙的剩余木材被加工成家具。
该旅馆有大约7500平方米的可用面积，大约450个床位，在恶劣的天气下，还有大约2200平方米的室内运动区，如攀岩墙、健身房等等。青年旅舍以其空间安排和休闲活动在村子里创造了一个中心。

 

The “youth hostel Gerlos” is located in the Austrian Alps in the village of Hochkrimml at an altitude of 1700 meters. Skiing is firmly anchored in Austrian society and is part of school teaching. This project aims to make school trips in an ecological environment more affordable. That is why the hotel was built from regional wood in solid wood construction, the hotel is heated by biomass district heating, electricity comes from photovoltaic, the journey is not made by individual transport but mainly by coach and the leftover wood from the transport of the cross-laminated timber walls was processed into furniture.The hotel has around 7500 m2 of usable square meters, around 450 beds, and, for bad weather, around 2200 square meters of indoor sports areas such as a climbing wall, a gym, and much more. The youth hostel creates a center in the village with its spatial arrangement and leisure activities.

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The main structure of the youth guest house is designed as a longitudinal structure in timber construction. The urban and spatial intention is to create a south-facing U-shaped “village square” between the main building and the street, which functions as a mediating semi-public zone between the youth hostel and the surrounding buildings.

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This square is accompanied by two side wings at ground level, which are spatially differentiated towards east and west as a landscape wave and allow the square to sink into the landscape as a cut in the terrain. In concrete terms, this means that these two parts of the building that accompany the village square are poured into the landscape and then planted with greenery. They merge with the environment. When you approach the youth hostel, it appears as a simple wooden structure.

 

Access to the main structure is through a single-story area that is glazed over the entire width from the village square. The height of this area corresponds to the poured-in wings of the building that flank the village square and allows the main structure to float like a bridge over the village square. Spatial complexity arises when approaching the building. As you delve deep into the landscape along the course of the village square, more and more views of the lower-lying landscape emerge through the main building. This takes place through numerous air spaces between the floors, which give the simple structure a visual permeability on closer inspection.

 

The ground floor on the level of the village square contains the foyer, from which the floors are accessed with ramps. This access is positioned centrally over the entire width of the longitudinal structure and extends the space of the foyer vertically through the air hole in the middle of the ramps. The vertical of the ramp access and the numerous air spaces between the floors develop a spatial symbiosis and enable rich transverse views to a three-story climbing wall that starts in the second basement level at the sports area.

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Architects: lechner & lechner architects
Area : 7560 m²
Year : 2021
Photographs :Julian Hoeck
Manufacturers : GRAPHISOFT, Binderholz
Lead Architect : Christine Lechner
Building Physics : Ingenieurbüro Ing. Denis Gappmaier
Design Planning : Lukas Ployer
Visualization : Paul Lechner
Submitting Architect : Michael Trixl
Client Representation : Joerg Neumaier , Arne Tammen
Furniture Designer : Stehaphan Keil
Structural Engineer : Thomas Forsthuber
Fire Protection : GOLSER TECHNISCHES BÜRO GmbH
House Technic Design Consultant : Bestra GmbH, OPTIPLAN Ingenieurgesellschaft für technische Gebäudeausrüstung und Energiewirtschaft GmbH
Geology Consultant : Mag. Andreas Pflügler GmbH
City : Hochkrimml
Country : Austria