The site’s landscape and topography provide a special opportunity for the hotel to address a set of circumstances and context, particularly about the building’s relationship to a very natural landscape. The primary design concept highlights the potential of public program spaces to direct and encourage a free and open circulation not only within the hotel, but throughout the site as well. The site and its views were emphasized through the provision of public open spaces throughout the building itself and in addition the landscape. Public and private spaces were programmed to overlap each other somewhat, to begin create an interaction between the two, with the public space “experience” as a catalyst for circulation around the site.