华盛顿州宾根的社会酒店面对相互冲突的环境因素，以一个独特的标志性组织来应对。该项目位于哥伦比亚河峡谷国家风景区内。其场地靠近海滨，但又被一系列的工业设施隔开，这使酒店与峡谷的戏剧性景观的关系更加复杂，项目位于住宅区内，需要对规模和邻居的隐私保持敏感。为了使酒店与自然环境的关系最大化，同时缓冲其对周围环境的影响，项目的概念是 "编辑全景"，利用新酒店的体量来编辑出中间的视野，前景的酒店庭院和背景的峡谷的宏伟之间的联系被加强，并在体验上联系起来。

The Society Hotel in Bingen, Washington confronts conflicting contextual drivers, responding with a singular and iconic organization.Located in the Columbia River Gorge - a National Scenic Area - the project’s site is near the waterfront yet separated from it by a series of industrial facilities. Further complicating the hotel’s relationship to the dramatic landscape of the Gorge, the property is within a residential setting requiring a sensitivity to scale and the privacy of its neighbors. Attempting to maximize the relationship of the hotel to its natural context, while buffering its impact on its surroundings, our concept became one of “Edited Panorama.” Using the massing of the new hotel to edit out the middle ground view, the connection between the foreground hotel courtyard and the background grandeur of the Gorge is heightened and experientially linked.

客户的项目包括四个不同但又相关的部分：对以前的学校进行改造再利用，20个酒店小木屋，一条有盖的小路，以及一个温泉建筑。在对学校进行改造时，我们的主要设计干预措施是对小木屋、小路和温泉进行重组，以便在学校以前的运动场上创造一个更大的形象。在我们的方案中，各个小木屋形成一个环，松散地界定了场地的边缘。虽然每个生活单元在地面上都是独立的，但它们通过一个共同的屋顶结合在一起，这个屋顶悬空，成为小木屋的有顶走道和门廊。

The client’s program consisted of four distinct, yet related components: the adaptive reuse of a former school, twenty hotel cabins, a covered pathway, and a spa building. Approaching the renovation of the school with a relatively light touch, our primary design intervention became the reorganization of the cabins, pathway, and spa to create a larger figure on the school’s former play fields. In our scheme, the individual cabins form a ring that loosely defines the edge of the site. While each living unit is detached on the ground, they are united through a shared roof that cantilevers out to double as a covered walkway and porches for the cabins.

小木屋的环形布局定义了一个共享的院子。通过其连接的屋顶，这个环形结构起到了框架的作用，使小木屋之间以及向上的天空和山丘都能看到。参观者会有双重视角，庭院花园的近景和景观的远景，也能提供一种退缩的感觉。同时，这个新的小木屋环线在社区和酒店之间提供了一个清晰的界限，同时保持了住宅的规模，避免了社区之间的单体障碍。

The ring of cabins defines a shared courtyard. With its connected roof, this ring acts as a frame, allowing views both between the cabins and upward to the sky and hills. Visitors are presented with a double perspective - the close view of the courtyard’s garden and the far view of the landscape - providing a sense of retreat, even in a town setting. At the same time, this new perimeter of cabins provides a clear delineation between the neighborhood and hotel, while maintaining a residential scale and avoiding a monolithic barrier between communities.

在这个木屋环线中，一个社区温泉建筑作为一个中央聚会空间，为酒店的游客提供了共享的设施。水疗中心与周围的小木屋保持相同的材料色调，但有一个明显的体积形式。该建筑避免了单一的正面入口，而是向环形的每一侧开放。在其内部，该结构向上扩展到一个大天窗，将光照在下面的一系列水池上。四个大墩子塑造了这个集体空间，同时还包含了更多的私人区域，包括更衣室、桑拿房、厨房和按摩室。

Within the ring, a community spa building serves as a central gathering space with shared amenities for the hotel’s visitors. The spa maintains the same material palette to the surrounding cabins, yet has a distinctly volumetric form. Avoiding a singular front entrance, the building instead opens onto each side of the ring. On its interior, the structure expands upward to a large skylight, which washes light over a series of pools below. Four large piers shape this collective space, while additionally containing more private areas, including changing rooms, sauna, kitchen, and massage rooms.

通过设计元素的精心布局，项目调和了场地和用户的竞争需求。在尊重邻居的同时，最大限度地扩大向外的视野，设计将不同的项目元素整合成一个单一的形式，既定义了内部的社区空间，又拥抱了周围的环境。

Through the strategic placement of elements, the Society Hotel reconciles the competing needs of site and users. Maximizing views outward, while being respectful neighbors, the design consolidates the disparate programmatic elements into a singular form that both defines an internal community space and embraces its surrounding environment.

Project name: The Society Hotel Bingen

Company name: Waechter Architecture

Website: www.waechterarchitecture.com

Contact e-mail: info@waechterarchitecture.com

Project location: Bingen, Washington, USA

Completion Year: 2019

Building area (m²): 1860 m²

Other participants:

Client: The Society Hotel

Interior and Landscape Designer: Blossom Design

Contractor: Orange Construction

Structural Engineer: Grummel Engineering

Civil Engineer: Summerset Civil Engineering

Photo credits: Lara Swimmer