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Are you looking for unique hotel experiences? Can you believe that you can change the world while you sleep?

The magdas Hotel is Austria’s first hotel run as a social business (Mag das in German means I like that).

Located on the edge of the public park landscape of the Vienna Prater, this social business brings people of different origins together—to stay, to work, to live together. This hotel is a place of encounter. It is in a building that you might not pay attention to, but it is full of love.

This is where different cultures meet. It is where architecture and humans grow together. Twenty-five teenagers—who came to Austria as refugees without their parents and live with support from Caritas—stay in two shared-apartment units nearby.

For them, the hotel is a temporary place to stay, and for some of them, it is also their workplace. Magdas Hotel used to be a senior citizens’ home dating from the 1960s. After closedown it was reconstructed to a hotel. Magdas Hotel is a house to generate fresh chances. Refugees therefore make up most of the hotel staff, learning together with others to get a foot in the labour market.

Operated by 20 former refugees and 15 professionals of the hotel industry, the magdas Hotelis a meeting place of 16 nations, 20 spoken languages, different cultural backgrounds, touching life stories, funny anecdotes, international guests, neighbours and a big portion of heartiness.

This encouraging collaborative togetherness was expressed in the architectural design, from the furnishing of the interiors to the lobby, restaurant and bar, also hotel rooms and apartments. The architect group AllesWirdGut adeptly mixed second-hand and found pieces. The subdued, harmonious, and elegant colour concept was complemented with distinctive individual items of furnishing, furniture with a past, and found objects with a history.

Architect Daniel Büchel did a superb job with individual design elements and colour concepts and equipped the rooms with recycled furniture including hand-knitted lampshades, vintage armchairs, and wardrobes that were previously to be found in the compartments of Austrian Federal Railway trains. Every room has a different upcycling design.

The multifunctional ground floor is all at once a reception area and lobby for hotel guests, a living room for the young people staying here, and a bar and restaurant for visitors. In a nutshell: a place of encounter.

As a social business magdas aims to solve social economic problems with entrepreneurial means. It’s not about maximizing profit, it’s about maximizing openness and humanity.

So, are you ready to change the world while you sleep?

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在睡眠時改變世界

你在尋找獨特的旅館體驗嗎？你能相信可以在睡眠時改變世界嗎？

瑪格達斯旅館( magdas Hotel) 是奧地利第一家經營社會企業的旅館。(mag das 德文的意思是我喜歡)

這個社會企業位在維也納普拉特公園（Vienna Prater）的公園景觀邊緣，將不同血統的人們聚集在一起- 留下來，工作，一起生活。這家旅館是一個相遇的地方。在一個外觀很不起眼的建築物中，但是充滿了愛。

這是不同文化相遇的地點。這是建築與人類共同成長的地方。在旅社旁邊有25名青少年住在兩個共用房間，在無父母陪伴下以難民身份來到奧地利，經由天主教慈善團體的幫助下生活。

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對於他們來說，旅館是一個暫時棲身的住所，對於他們其中的一些人來說，這也是他們的工作場所。瑪格達斯旅館建於1960年代，原本是一所老年人住宅，關閉後改建為現在的旅社。瑪格達斯旅館是一棟創造新機會的房子。而這些曾經是難民的人成為了旅館員工的大多數，他們與其他人一起學習以進入勞動力市場。

瑪格達斯酒店由20名前難民和15名業專業旅館人士經營，是16個國家/地區的集合，20種語言，不同文化背景，動人的生活故事，有趣的軼事，國際賓客，鄰居和極度熱情的交集點。

這種鼓勵合作的團結感也可以在建築設計中找到表達方式：對於室內裝飾（大廳，餐廳和酒吧，酒店房間，公寓），AllesWirdGut建築團隊借鑒了二手方法，發現了零件和兩者的巧妙結合。柔和，和諧和優雅的色彩概念與獨特的家具，讓帶有歷史的家具和具有歷史意義的物件相輔相成。

建築師Daniel Büchel在個性化設計元素和色彩概念方面做得非常出色，並為房間配備了可回收的家具，包括手工編織的燈罩，老式扶手椅和衣櫃，這些家具以前可以在奧地利聯邦鐵路的車廂中找到。每一間房間的創意重用設計都不一樣。

多功能底樓既是接待區和酒店大堂，又是供住在這裡的年輕人使用的客廳，還有一間酒吧和餐廳供遊客使用。簡而言之：一個人們相遇的地方。

Magdas hotel作為一種社會企業，終旨在通過創業方式解決社會經濟問題。這和將利潤變最大沒有關係，而是在於將開放性和人性化發揮到極致。

所以，你準備好要在睡眠時改變世界嗎 ?