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Refuges in the Latin American Jungle: 7 Lodges to Connect With Nature

Camilla Ghisleni — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Many people living in large urban centers have, at some point, wished to trade the chaos of city life for the calm and tranquility of nature. As the desire for such experiences grows, Latin American countries' tourism and hospitality sectors have been investing in resorts nestled within forests. Inspired by eco-tourism, these retreats are designed to blend seamlessly into their surroundings, using local materials and traditional techniques that respect the ecosystem and promote sustainability.

Dengfenglai Guest House / ZX STUDIO

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Limitations and claims
This project is located in Shengshan Town, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang province. The local B&B project has a clear implementation manual, which limits the total area, floor area, height of the building, and even the architectural style. As a result, architectural styling and space creation are extremely limited.

Open Call: Berlin Bohemian Hostel

Rene Submissions — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:21:00 +0000

Berlin is the 21st century contemporary world’s ideal capital. The city left its torrid history behind to quickly grow and cement itself into the intellectual and cultural core of the world. Berlin is the epicenter of any new movement that starts to demolish the old-world order. Ever since the wall came down in 1989, Berlin has been known as a bohemian paradise, a place where the empty spaces between east and west could be pioneered and inhabited by the most creative types, who could create and carouse with impunity.

Together Hostel / Cao Pu Studio

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 20:00:00 +0000

A living-space operating group set up by a few young people rents the second and third floor of a hotel in Beijing. The third floor is put to traditional hostel use, while the second floor needs something special to fulfill the function of experiencing new for youth. They name the space “together”, hoping to emphasize new experiences besides staying, such as traveling together, watching movies together, cooking together and more.

MASA Studio’s Competition-Winning Hostels Combine Modularity and Tradition for Cancer Patients

Osman Bari — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

With a modular composition inspired by traditional sub-Saharan African building typologies, MASA Studio’s safe lodging proposal for Tanzanian cancer victims has been selected as the winner of the Hostels for Hope competition, which called for solutions to issues of health and safety in regards to the rehabilitation of cancer victims away from home in rural Africa. Organized by Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, an international foundation combatting women’s cancers, the competition responds to the unfortunate decision that thousands of Tanzanian women have to make every year – to travel great lengths for unaffordable treatment and lodging, or to remain at home unable to fight the disease.

GRAFT Wins Competition to Restore and Extend Youth Hostel in Munich

James Taylor-Foster — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

GRAFT Architects have won an invited competition to restore and extend one of Germany's oldest youth hostels in central Munich, Germany. Their proposal, which was judged alongside designs by haascookzemmrich (Stuttgart), Snøhetta (Oslo), and YES Architecture (Munich), centers around the idea of "experiencing community." Their proposal enables exchange and communication whilst also alluding to the "established traditions of simple traveling, youthful curiosity and the thirst for encounter." Connecting the historic quality of the building with the challenges of modern habits and traveling practices, their design "builds a bridge between origins and departure."