I really like modern and minimalist design, but in the vain of Frank Lloyd Wright, buildings that fit the environment. I like modern architecture but only when it is balanced and blended well into the environment, not stick out like an alien spacecraft.
Maybe a long low angular building that resembles rock formations of the mountains, like cliffs and jutting ledges, boulder fields, or a massive sheet slab of rock that broke away from the hill. This building should be shrouded in evergreens to take the sharp edges off the building’s form. Blend it onto the mountainside with similar pitches, angles, shapes and colors of the mountain it resides on. I like the juxtaposition of modern industrial elements and natural elements, Like building the lodge into the side of the mountain so one of the walls is solid mountain-side showing all the mineral veins in the rock . I also dig any cantilever design so ill just throw that in there.
Huge open spaces in the lodge, exposed concrete, I beams and steel, modern materials like smoke glass and polished metals as small, modern accents, with lots of natural materials to balance it, like stone and wood. Bring in outside elements, whole dead fall tree trunks, large live trees growing inside the lodge, tons of plant life, Large boulders/stone slabs serving as dividing spaces or walls, huge open fire places that give off light and heat. If its in a mountain valley perhaps a natural spring runs through it, maybe incorporate that into the inside space.
Blur the line between inside and outside space. Use seamless glass walls or just a wall-less opening between the inside of the lodge and the outdoor lodge/lounge/deck area. large overhangs jutting out over the outside deck/lounge area, fire pits and space heaters so the outside environment is warm, trees growing in the outside deck area that block some of the wind and snow and insulate the outside area. I am thinking like an alpine version of architecture you see in Big Sur and the California coastline.
People come to ski and be in the mountains and take in its natural beauty, give them that feeling even when they are sitting in the comfort of a lodge, blur the line between what is inside and what is outside, between what is the mountain and what is the building.
