Hostel Silo ­Erlenmatt in Basel

Architect
Harry Gugger Studio
Lighting design
Harry Gugger Studio
Interior Design
Harry Gugger Studio, Bravo Ricky
Site management
Eitel & Partner
Structural engineering
Schnetzer Puskas Ingnieure
Building services engineering
Waldhauser + Hermann
Building physics
Gartenmann Engineering
© Jakob Schoof
© Jakob Schoof
© Christian Kahl
© Donata Ettlin
© Christian Kahl
© Jakob Schoof
© Donata Ettlin
© Donata Ettlin
© Christian Kahl
© Harry Gugger Studio
© Christian Kahl
Many building types exist that the modern hospitality industry has not yet adapted for its purposes: treehouses, prisons, cranes, lighthouses and abandoned railway coaches. In the Erlenmatt-Ost district of Basel, the reinforced concrete vessels of a former cocoa and grain silo now offer guests a place for an overnight stay. Breakfast is served in the restaurant beneath the silo hoppers. The concrete maintenance walkway and the metal loading chutes, which had formerly been in use to move stored goods, are still visible on the roof level. In 1912 art deco architect Rudolf Sandreuter, commissioned by the Basel storage corporation, created the silo building. It is one of the few remaining artefacts of a freight train station that the former German Reichsbahn and later Bundesbahn operated here, in Basel’s north, near the Swiss-German border.