St. Bernard Hotel

A fast-tracked 135000sf (12540m²) ski-resort hotel & spa that pays tribute to the original Hotel St. Bernard and its history as the creation of Jean Mayer, a champion skier and restauranteur who introduced Taos valley to his native Haute-Savoie architecture and cuisine in the 1950's.

The Lodge contains guestrooms and a reconstruction of the historic dining room. Chalets Alpenhof & Mayer contain fitness facilities & spa, fine-dining restaurant, and apartments on the upper floors. A precast concrete podium links the three buildings underneath, concealing valet parking, employee areas, and service facilities within the mountainside.

As the Job Captain and BIM Lead, I lead a team of 10 architects, interior designers and landscape architects in producing document sets, renderings & client presentations, coordinating consultants, and specifying products.

I also developed wildfire prevention vegetation maintenance plans, unit mix calculations, and accessibility/building code analyses.

Throughout the process I was deeply involved in every aspect of the design, working closely with the architecture and landscape principles in New York and Montana, the interior design principle in San Francisco, the structural/MEP consultants and the AOR in Colorado, and the alpine design consultant in Geneva, Switzerland. A team spread across 9 time zones!

Guest-facing interior and exterior spaces were developed through design charrettes using hand-sketching, plan/elevation, and realtime 3D walkthroughs using Enscape and Lumion.

Sets and modeling produced in Revit.