Skylab
An alpine resort lodge precedent featuring a prominent heavy-timber canopy and dark wood cladding that creates a strong tactile contrast against snowy surroundings.
- What we like about this project
- The massive angled glulam support column rests cleanly on a low concrete footing directly emerging from the snow.
Materials
- glulam-timber
- dark-stained-wood
- glass
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- heavy-timber-canopy
- dark-wood-siding
- large-windows
- alpine-lodge
Style tags
- contemporary
- alpine
- rustic-modern
Visual tags
- alpine
- hospitality
- timber-structure
- dusk-lighting
- snow-context
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story massing with a prominent angled timber canopy projecting over the main entryway, grounded by a concrete base and snow banks.
- Facade system
- Vertical dark wood slat rainscreen combined with expansive glazed storefront and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam frame with massive exposed glulam canopy support.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale entrance with a two-story lodge volume overhead.
- Lighting
- Cool twilight blue sky contrasting with warm interior downlighting under the timber canopy and glowing interior windows.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and warm against the cold, dark mountain twilight.
- Environmental context
- Alpine resort setting with snow on the ground and surrounding mountainous context.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the snow-covered grounds, the heavy timber porch creates a warm, sheltered threshold leading into the warmly lit interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating timber rafters beneath the canopy echo the vertical rhythm of the dark cladding and punched windows.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine vernacular
- Program
- Hospitality / Resort Hotel
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- glulam-timber, dark-stained-wood, glass, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- heavy-timber-canopy, dark-wood-siding, large-windows, alpine-lodge
- Style tags
- contemporary, alpine, rustic-modern
- Visual tags
- alpine, hospitality, timber-structure, dusk-lighting, snow-context
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical two-story massing with a prominent angled timber canopy projecting over the main entryway, grounded by a concrete base and snow banks.
- Facade system
- Vertical dark wood slat rainscreen combined with expansive glazed storefront and punched window openings.
- Structural guess
- Heavy timber post-and-beam frame with massive exposed glulam canopy support.
- Spatial scale
- Human-scale entrance with a two-story lodge volume overhead.
- Lighting
- Cool twilight blue sky contrasting with warm interior downlighting under the timber canopy and glowing interior windows.
- Atmosphere
- Inviting and warm against the cold, dark mountain twilight.
- Environmental context
- Alpine resort setting with snow on the ground and surrounding mountainous context.
- Spatial experience
- Approaching from the snow-covered grounds, the heavy timber porch creates a warm, sheltered threshold leading into the warmly lit interior.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating timber rafters beneath the canopy echo the vertical rhythm of the dark cladding and punched windows.
- Style reading
- Contemporary alpine vernacular
- Program
- Hospitality / Resort Hotel
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture