Sleeper March/April 2010

THE DRAWING BOARD
NORTH SLOPE
SKI HOTEL
Artist and designer Michael Jantzen has that can manipulate the appropriate amount
revealed his conceptual proposal for The of light, heat, and or fresh air that enters each
North Slope Ski Hotel – an eco-friendly room.
95-room luxury hotel, which is powered The hotel’s signature statement is its shape,
primarily by the wind and by the sun. which incorporates a 400ft ski slope. Guests
Eight large vertical axis wind turbines can take an elevator to the top of the hotel,
are mounted on the top of the hotel, and and ski down the side of the structure, into
a large array of ﬂexible photovoltaic cells the surrounding landscape. They would also
cover the lower south facing curved portion be able to ski down the hotel’s built-in ski
of the structure. These wind turbines and slope during the summer, since it is ﬁtted with
solar cells are used to supply most of the a special skiable surface that will not require
hotel’s electrical needs. The entire hotel snow. The ski slope is also designed to collect
would be built from the most appropriate and summer rainwater, and winter melting snow,
sustainable building products available on the as it is channeled into large storage containers
market. Large south-facing insulated windows buried at the base of the slope. This water is
mounted in front of a large amount of thermal recycled and used in and around the hotel.
mass in the ﬂoor of the lobby, are used to Says Frantzen “Conceptually, the design
help passively solar heat the hotel, along with for the North Slope Ski Hotel came from
deeply buried earth pipes. a symbolic image of a large snow covered
The windows are shaded in the summer mountain, on which a small grove of trees
by a large overhang projecting from the south grows at its peak. My hope with this design is
face of the structure. to once again demonstrate how even the most
These large controllable windows are also luxurious places on earth can, and should be,
used to provide natural light and ventilation built in an earth friendly way.”
for the hotel. In addition, each of the 95
rooms in the North Slope Ski Hotel are
ﬁtted with two large windows. Each of these
windows is designed to function like valves
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