Case study
AutoCamp Catskills
The clubhouse for AutoCamp's Hudson Valley resort, visualized inside and out before construction began.
Project at a glance
NoTriangle produced six renderings of the Workshop/APD-designed clubhouse at AutoCamp Catskills, the social heart of the brand's Hudson Valley resort. The set covered the building by day and under a full moon, the post-and-beam great room, the pool, and the covered porch, so the design could be approved and the experience seen before the resort was built.
- Operator
- AutoCamp, outdoor hospitality brand
- Architect
- Workshop/APD
- Building type
- Glamping resort clubhouse (Airstream and cabin resort)
- Location
- Saugerties, New York, Hudson Valley
- Purpose
- Visualize the clubhouse design before construction
- Scope
- Six clubhouse renderings, exterior day and night, great room, pool, and covered porch
- Opened
- June 2022, later a Gold Key Award winner
- Engagement
- Part of an ongoing relationship with Workshop/APD
The brief
A Barn for the Hudson Valley.
For its Catskills resort, near Saugerties in the Hudson Valley, AutoCamp again worked with Workshop/APD on the master plan, architecture, and interior design. The roughly 37-acre property gathers custom Airstreams, cabins, and tent-and-Airstream BaseCamps around a clubhouse drawn from the agrarian architecture and music culture of the region, a pair of gabled, post-and-beam barns in cedar and dark standing-seam metal.
NoTriangle was brought in to visualize that clubhouse before it was built. The renderings had to do two things at once: let the design team resolve the timber structure and the materials, and capture the experience of a place built for people to gather, in the right light and the real landscape.
Inside the clubhouse
Structure You Can Read, Light You Can Feel.
The interior renderings centered on the timber structure that defines the building: the exposed post-and-beam frame, the cathedral ceiling, the run of skylights, and the barn pendants that light the great room. Modeled from Workshop/APD's design, they let the team read the joinery, the materials, and the proportions of the space before it was framed.
Just as important was the connection to the outdoors. The clubhouse opens through full-height glass and a deep covered porch to the meadow, so the renderings were staged to show that flow, the lounge and general store inside, the porch and pool just beyond, and the building glowing under a full Catskills moon.
Inside and out
The Clubhouse Spills Into the Landscape.
The pool, the firepit, and the lounge terraces extend the clubhouse out into the meadow. Rendering the building with its amenities and its setting together let the operator see the whole social heart of the resort as one place, the way a guest would experience it, rather than as a building and a site plan kept apart.
Built to flex
One Porch, More Than One Use.
The deep covered porch is the clubhouse's flexible room, sheltered by the overhanging roof and open to the meadow on the other side. To show how it would earn its place, NoTriangle rendered the same porch two ways, set for casual dining and arranged for a gathering, so the operator could see a single space carrying different parts of the program through the day.
The outcome
Built, Opened, and Awarded.
AutoCamp Catskills opened in June 2022 near Saugerties, and the post-and-beam clubhouse the renderings had shown is the building guests gather in today. The completed project went on to be recognized in the industry, with its interiors winning a 2023 Gold Key Award for hospitality design.
Before any of that, the renderings let the architect and the operator agree on the clubhouse and feel the experience the resort would deliver. The work was part of an ongoing relationship with Workshop/APD, one of the studio's longest-standing architecture partners, whose AutoCamp clubhouses NoTriangle has visualized on both coasts.
Questions
Rendering a Hospitality Clubhouse
- What is AutoCamp Catskills?
- AutoCamp Catskills is an outdoor-hospitality resort near Saugerties, New York, in the Hudson Valley, with custom Airstreams, cabins, and tent-and-Airstream BaseCamps across a roughly 37-acre site, anchored by a clubhouse. Designed by Workshop/APD and opened in June 2022, its interiors went on to win a 2023 Gold Key Award. NoTriangle produced the renderings that visualized the clubhouse before it was built.
- How do you render a hospitality clubhouse so the design can be approved?
- You build the building from the architect's design and then show it the way it will actually be used, in the right light and setting. For AutoCamp Catskills the renderings covered the post-and-beam great room, the covered porch, the pool, and the exterior by day and under a full moon, so the operator and the design team could read the timber structure, the materials, and the flow between inside and out before construction.
- Can one space be rendered for more than one use?
- Yes, and it is often the point. The covered porch at AutoCamp Catskills was rendered both set for dining and arranged for a gathering, so the operator could see the same indoor-outdoor room working in two modes. Showing a flexible space doing different jobs is part of how renderings prove a hospitality program before it is built.
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