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had access to spaces beyond a small lobby and security desk,” Davis notes. “In our design, the rst oor lobby, coffee bar and meeting room are all publicly accessible and very visible from the building’s storefront windows.” Located on the second oor are the hostel’s kitchen area, which features a gleaming set of stainless-steel appliances

and exible seating options to encourage interaction, along with a library, game room and Internet-access room. These guestonly amenities are accessed by a main stairway whose walls are lined with painted panels bearing a series of engraved travelrelated quotations and glass-encased artifacts and mementos from other HI hostels around the world.

The hostel’s metallic front desk harkens back to the building’s industrial roots.

Housed within the building’s third through sixth oors are the hostel’s 99 guest rooms, which have a total of 484 beds. “As this is an adaptive-reuse project, there are many different room types,” Davis says. “However, the two most typical layouts are a six-bed room with three bunk-beds and a more private con guration featuring a single bed over a double.” As for the guest bathrooms, Davis notes that hostels have traditionally featured single, so-called “gang” bathrooms on each oor. “Many travelers, especially those from the U.S., nd that layout unappealing, so we installed 23 domestic-style, three- xture bathrooms on each oor, most of which are not ‘en suite’ but accessed from the corridors and available to any guest,” he says. Deborah Ruhe, executive director of HI’s U.S. operations, said her group is pleased with the results of Bergmeyer’s efforts. “The design team helped us achieve our goals not only for sustainable design, but also for a beautifully designed facility that raises the pro le of hostelling by creating an urban agship with new design thinking, more publicly oriented spaces and a greater visibility in Boston’s cultural community.” BD

PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
OWNER

Hostelling International
ARCHITECT/INTERIOR DESIGNER

KITCHEN STAINLESS STEEL

Boston Showcase
LIGHTING

Bergmeyer Associates Inc.
ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT

Stegman + Associates Suffolk Construction
BATH FIXTURES:

GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Designtex Surface Imaging Cooper Lighting CB2 Birchwood Lighting Philips ALKCO
LOCKERS

Riverbend Furniture Co.
RECEPTION/DINING COUNTERS

Symmons Porcher American Standard
FABRICS

Caesar Stone
SEATING

Architex CF Stinson Maharam
FIREPLACE

Emeco KI Union Ofﬁce Interiors
SIGNAGE TABLES

Modern Spark
FLOOR COVERINGS AND MATERIALS

Advanced Signing Dietrich Woodworking
WALL COVERINGS AND MATERIALS

Bentley Prince Street FLOR Masland Contract Shaw
FURNITURE

Designtex Surface Imaging Dal-Tile Sonny’s Glass Tinting
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A common kitchen area on the hostel’s second oor features a sleek set of stainless-steel appliances.

Furniture Concepts West Elm New England Seating BluDot Southern Aluminum

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