和
Wa — harmony
The lounge
A room designed to lower your shoulders. Warm light, soft acoustics, and seating that lets strangers become company at their own pace.
The concept
Solitude, without the loneliness.
The Solo Hub began with a simple observation: more people than ever travel alone, and almost nothing is built for them. Hostels take your privacy. Hotels charge you for a second person who isn't there. Capsule hotels treat you like luggage. We built the room in between.
Why we exist
The solo traveller stopped being a niche.
Remote work untethered people from desks. The experience economy made the trip itself the point. A generation learned that going alone is not a fallback — it's a preference.
What didn't change was the supply. The market still sorts travellers into bunk-bed dorms or double rooms, as if travelling alone were either a budget compromise or a temporary state. We think it deserves its own category: private, beautiful, social when you want it, silent when you don't, and priced for one.
WA LOUNGE · walnut · 2700K
We are building the most considered place in Europe to spend a night by yourself.
The philosophy
Borrowed from the ryokan, built for the city.
The Japanese inn solved hospitality for the solo guest centuries ago: a small, complete room, a shared bath, a rhythm to the day. We kept the grammar and changed the language.
間
Ma — the interval
The corridor & capsule
Ma is the space between things — the pause that gives the rest its meaning. Our capsules are that pause: sealed, dim, yours.
禊
Misogi — renewal
The bath
A washing ritual, not a wet room. Sage zellige and smoked oak turn a shower into the thing that separates the day from the night.
The standard
Written down once. Built everywhere.
Every Solo Hub is held to one specification. It is what lets a guest in Lisbon trust a room they first met in Rotterdam — and what lets us run the building like a brand, not a one-off.
Acoustic separationSTC 42
LightingDALI-2 · 2700K
Fresh air, per capsule10 l/s
Capsule shellCharcoal HPL
ApertureSingle, warm
OccupancyOne, always
It reads like a spec sheet because it is one. The things that decide whether you sleep — sound, air, light, surface — are not left to chance or taste.
An acoustic labyrinth sits behind every vent, so fresh air arrives without the corridor's noise following it. Mineral-wool cavities and an aluminium frame make each capsule a quiet box inside a quiet building. The light never goes blue. None of it is visible. All of it is the point.
The people
Founders, with operators behind them.
A small team building the first houses by hand, advised by people who have opened and run hotels at scale.
Francesco De Giacomo
Co-founder
Leads brand, design and growth — from the building standard to the way a guest first hears about us.
Maximilien Anelli
Co-founder
Leads operations, real estate and capital — the deals, the buildings, and the machinery that keeps them running.
Operational advisory
Senior hotel operators
Guided by senior leaders from established European lifestyle hotels, who keep the standard honest and the operations real.
Want the longer version?
However you've arrived — to stay, to partner, or to invest — there's a door for you.