Rosebrook Lodge | Bull Stockwell Allen

Bretton Woods’ 17,000 sq. foot Rosebrook Lodge perches on a mountainside overlooking New Hampshire’s celebrated Presidential Vary, a collection of White Mountain peaks together with the State’s iconic 6,288-foot-high Mt. Washington. Accomplished in July 2020, the constructing’s blade-like type was knowledgeable by 4 constraints: the positioning’s rugged topography, a U.S. Forest Service boundary, current skier site visitors, and a brand new top-of-the-mountain gondola that was additionally part of the venture.

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A curved floor-to-ceiling façade of wooden and glass washes the inside with pure mild. The straightforward, low-slope roof design eliminates icicles and sheds snow from all public-facing areas. A double-height entry serves as a beacon, welcoming friends arriving from the gondola and visual from the historic Mount Washington Lodge under. The decrease degree of the lodge incorporates the dramatic entry, a full-service restaurant, a café, visitor restrooms, and the power’s back-of-house.

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The higher degree incorporates meals service and an open corridor serving skiers within the wintertime and as a destination-based venue for weddings and particular occasions. With the purpose of bringing the outside in, the design crew labored to make sure a seamless transition of timber, metal, stone, and glass, complementing the area’s pure magnificence in a way that feels equal components rustic and refined.

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The constructing attracts on the area’s post-and-beam custom, whereas making a construction that’s each contemporary and modern. Higher and lower-level patios additional anchor the constructing to the mountain, thereby blurring the boundary between nature and the man-made. To seize the positioning’s 180-degree views, Rosebrook incorporates an progressive wooden and timber “curtain wall.” Comprised of timber ladders and aluminum-clad wooden nail fin home windows, the system minimizes development prices whereas addressing the acute wind, water, and temperature variations attribute of a high-Alpine atmosphere.

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