Youthhostel Gerlos​

( Original text translated from Turkish to English )

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Designed by lechner & lechner architects, the Gerlos youth hostel offers an ecological accommodation solution that serves the ski culture, which is important in Austria, and creates a lively focal point for the place where it is located.

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The youth hostel Gerlos is located in the village of Hochkrimml at an altitude of 1700 meters in the Austrian Alps. The hostel with a usable area of ​​approx. 7500 m2 has 450 beds and a 2200 m2 indoor sports area, including a climbing wall for bad weather. The facility offers an ecological accommodation solution that serves the ski culture, which holds an important place in Austria, while creating a lively center for the place where it is located. The hostel building defines a south-facing U-shaped 'village square' that acts as a semi-public zone between the main building and the street, and between the hostel and the surrounding buildings. The main wooden building is supported by two single-storey buildings that slope towards the street and blend into the landscape. The main building is accessed through the glazed part that runs along the ground floor. Because the ground floor is surrounded by glass on the square facade, the wooden structure appears to be floating in the air. The spatial experience, which becomes ever richer the closer you get from the square to the building, is enriched by the central circulation volume, in which the upper floors are accessed via ramps. Local wood was preferred as the building material for the passively air-conditioned building. Furniture, on the other hand, is obtained by processing wood waste.