Eglise Lodge
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Yellowstone Club’s new on-mountain restaurant, the Eglise Lodge, serves as a base camp for a 1000-acre ski and summer recreation expansion. Located atop the club’s first gondola, the mid-mountain location boasts panoramic views of Montana’s Gallatin Mountain Range.
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The lodge was choreographed to create an environment suitable for the fine dining needs of a sophisticated clientele while responding to its rugged Montana setting. Designed as a low-slung volume, the building carefully nestles into the landscape. Clad in stone, split timbers, and a sheet steel, the overall design engages in a contemporary interpretation of materials rooted in the regional vernacular.
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As
a high-altitude fine-dining environment, the interiors program came with a
specific set of challenges, creating a refined experience that would also be
resilient to ski equipment and high traffic. CCY expressed the structural frame
on the interior, creating an authenticity to the space, and resulting in a
cohesive environment, inside and out.
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To create a variety of views and opportunities for different types of experiences at different scales, the design configures the layout to include a large main space with dining booths tucked along the north wall, a more intimate lounge facing the ski hill to the south, and a private dining room with distant mountain range views.
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To minimize the project’s carbon footprint and to facilitate a challenging high-altitude construction at 9,573 feet above sea level, CCY designed the roof structure with Cross Laminated Timbers, or CLT, supported with Glulam columns.
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Completed
2024Location
Yellowstone Club, MontanaProject Size
14,000 SF
Mid-Mountain Restaurant
2,600 SF Grip Maintenance Facility
Primary Scope
Architecture, Interior Architecture and Interior Design
Primary Materials
Blackened Steel Paneling, Rough Sawn Cedar Siding, and Board Formed Concrete