Breitenbach Landscape Hotel – 48° Nord

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter project for Breitenbach Landscape Hotel, nicknamed 48°Nord for its geolocation in Alsace, France is finally completed!

It has already had a lot of satisfied guests, and recognition by well-known websites and magazines all around the world. ArchDaily, Dezeen, Wallpaper, Architectural Digest Russia, Archello, world-architects, Designboom, Divisare, Elle Decor Spain, Archivibe, ArchiLovers and Daily Arch News, just to name a few. We are delighted by all the positive feedback we have received for the project.

Breitenbach Landscape Hotel proposes a holistic and a true ecotourism experience in Alsace, inspired by Scandinavian traditions and building on the region’s culinary, wellness and nature opportunities. 48° Nord reinterprets the traditional Scandinavian hytte, a place of retreat and reconnection with wild nature. Reiulf Ramstad worked closely with the hotel’s owner, Emil Leroy-Jönsson, and the project enjoyed strong local support in Breitenbach, a community that has taken a pioneering ecological approach to farming, food production and ecological business. 

The project is made of 14 “hytte” (cabins) from 20 to 60m2, and a main building with the reception, a restaurant, wellness facility and the director’s housing.

At 48° Nord, luxury is redefined. Space, privacy, calm, sobriety, nature and fresh air is the new luxury.  Perhaps the antithesis of the traditional luxury; the pomp, the superfluous. Alone, facing the landscape, guests are enabled to find another essence of beauty and comfort in the shifting colors of the season, lights and shadows, the very essence of nature’s qualities.