This resort hotel program lies on a protected bay near the southern end of St. Kitts in the Caribbean. The program includes a restaurant, bar, conference and events rooms, fitness club, hotel pool, spa, beach club, and seventy five suites strung along about 1400 feet of shoreline. With support facilities the program is about 130,000 square feet. The fifty acre parcel includes lots sold to underwrite the costs of the facility. The land sold for houses is on low flat and very buildable sites near the water and on steeper hillside sites overlooking the bay and the island interior. At the specific request of the owner the hotel was sited on steep slopes of 30 to 50 percent gradients where the views of the bay and the mountains are especially dramatic. The slopes, privacy and vies were the dominant considerations in arranging the main hotel program on the site.

Topography and program density required a fairly urban character for the hotel. A single road at twenty meter above sea level runs the length of the resort and the program is terraced up and down from this road as density requires and gradients allow. The main hotel program is essentially a single large facility organized as a checkerboard of thin buildings and terraced gardens. Stairs and elevators stitch together five different levels of terraced program. Sections and perspectives indicate that rooms are built into the undercrofts of upper terraces so that the massive retaining walls required by the site do not become oppressive.

The hotel suites form a street of about a quarter mile. The street is designed to be as varied throughout its length as possible so that movement along it is interesting, stimulating and fun. The street is more or less continuously lined on the upper side where building foundations retain the slope above the road. The section at the lower side of the road varies constantly, alternately providing a tight, double loaded street of loose, informal geometry, or open views that take in the entire bay and the two mountains that frame the bay. There is a basic suite prototype along the road that provides for a bedroom and living room flanking an outdoor pool. Four or five variants respond specifically to different grades, to specific views or threats to privacy.

Lots, blocks and roads throughout the rest of the site reflect the terrain. Lots down by the beach, where the land is lower and flatter, show a picturesque grid of streets and small public lawns that nonetheless acknowledge the ruthless logic of developing waterfront. The lots on the steeper slopes have streets with qualities more like the road through the resort- very loose geometries and varied rights of way; lozenge shaped blocks whose depths across the slope vary with the grade of the hillside; roads that follow the convex and concave contours of the slope. These blocks lend themselves to smaller lots whose garden walls and foundation walls provide not only for the privacy of the homes but for the unique character of each stretch of road.