91Ƶ Staff//November 10, 2022//

PROJECT: The Lodge at Black Butte Ranch
LOCATION: Sisters
START DATE: November 2021
ANTICIPATED COMPLETION DATE: early 2023
COST: undisclosed
OWNER/DEVELOPER: Black Butte Ranch
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co.
ARCHITECT: Hacker
ENGINEERS: Harper Houf Peterson Righellis (civil), Madden & Baughman Engineering (structural), PAE (mechanical, electrical and plumbing)
OTHER ASSOCIATES/CONSULTANTS: Walker Macy (landscape architecture), Bargreen Ellingson Restaurant Supply and Design (kitchen design), Luma Lighting Design (lighting), Listen Acoustics (acoustical engineering), Straight Edge Designs (custom tables and benches), Pioneer Millworks (interior wood siding, flooring, ceiling), Portland Direct Tile & Marble (Brazilian black slate flooring), Rasmussen Masonry (stone fireplace)
PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE: Black Butte Ranch, on 1,800 acres in Central Oregon, serves as a home for year-round residents and a popular vacation destination. The ranch community began a comprehensive redevelopment plan in 2013, and after working with Hacker on the new Lakeside recreation and dining complex (completed in 2016) and a new general store (completed in 2021), the team turned its attention to the resort’s 50-year-old lodge. After an analysis determined a renovation of the lodge would be impractical, Hacker began an extensive, yearlong outreach process to understand the community’s vision and priorities for the lodge’s replacement.
A new 28,000-square-foot structure (including an exterior deck) was designed to honor and evolve the original ranch buildings’ designs while providing careful framing and layering of views as well as a sensitive interpretation of regional materials and forms.
The interior will feature contrasting tones of native wood species to create a sense of both warmth and openness. Crews salvaged as much of the original lodge’s wood as possible to create guardrails, screens, furniture, and wall finishes. An established pine tree on the site could not be saved, so it was transformed into custom tabletops for the restaurant and bar. There will also be a uniquely textured, double-height stone fireplace.
The exterior will be clad in charred cedar created via a traditional Japanese wood treatment that maintains the previous building’s weathered look while providing additional resistance to insects and fire. The focus on local resources also will be visible in the landscape design, which calls for drought-tolerant native plants. Building materials will be sourced regionally.
The new building will have twice as much space as the existing one, and be divided into three main sections: public spaces, including the 70-seat lodge restaurant and bar, 12-seat Fireside lounge, 50-seat Aspen lounge/deck/bar, and 16-seat Ponderosa private dining room and outside lounge; the Three Sisters private area with a 210-seat-capacity event room, large dressing room, and meeting room; and a state-of-the-art kitchen with expanded catering services.
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