A concept for a single hotel in the Hudson Valley, drawn as an exercise. The kind of thinking that usually stays in the studio.
No client. No site. A hotel drawn to find out what the valley could hold.
Heavy timber and a single hearth. The common room carrying the whole argument before a guest reaches a door.
Wellness kept primitive on purpose. Stone, cedar, and a fire set into the floor.
Reclaimed wood and raw plaster, lit low. The room people stay in past their plan.
Guest rooms tuned for rest, in the palette of the land just outside the window.
Hudson River iceboats, the nineteenth century answer to going fast. A place with its own character to draw on, not a backdrop to borrow.
The same idea, asked to stand in glass instead of timber.
A companion study, modern and cantilevered, proof the concept holds in more than one architectural language.
You learn what a place wants by drawing it before anyone pays you to.