Colorado Modern Home | Bar House | Rocky Mountains | GLUCK PLUS

This large family house is located on a deep narrow valley, bounded by a river on one edge and a road on the other. The winter weather is severe, and the sun reaches the bottom of the valley only from the south. Unlike the surrounding houses, this house runs perpendicular to the valley to maximize the southern exposure. The linear program allows each room to receive the southern exposure and provides spectacular views of the valley......more

Colorado Modern Mountain Home | Rocky Mountains Guest House | Colorado | GLUCK PLUS

This 2,850 SF guest house in the Rocky Mountains integrates into and accentuates its mountain environment. Two intersecting bar shapes bookend to complete the implied courtyard of the original house, creating a high mountain yard that connects the two structures into a single family gathering place. Planes of ‘roof meadow’ render the house practically invisible from the road, and sculpt a private sunken court. Continuous clerestory glass focuses the panorama views and provides a completely day-lit space. A thick solar wall separates the service side of the building from the main courtyard while creating a secondary space for cars, storage, and the harvesting of solar energy.....more

The Scholl House | Aspen | Colorado | Studio B

The Scholl house takes its cues from the 1950’s ‘Case Study’ architectural house series and resists the prevailing mountain vernacular commonly represented by gables, logs and antler chandeliers. The steeply confined site possessed challenges with excavation, topography, drainage, restrictive easements and was required to address strict subdivision design covenants. Contours of the site defied the street grid and the house sits parallel to them and stands in contrast to its neighbors. The clients dwell between Miami and Aspen and are avid collectors of videography and photography. They requested a solution that could exhibit their expanding and revolving collection. The resulting architecture is calculated and sober in its detailing and resolution in plan, section and elevation is honest and simple. The exterior material palate is composed of interlocking zinc panels, formed concrete, aluminum windows and doors with tempered glass railings that will age gracefully without maintenance..........more

House In Telluride | Colorado | Anmahian Winton Architects

The essence of this design lies in the relationship between a conventional house program and an extraordinary mountain site. The house sits 10,000 feet above sea level on the steep slope of the San Juan Mountains. The project explores ways to engage the beauty of the site and to provide relief from an intense, high desert climate that is taxing on both people and buildings. The materials chosen for this project — local limestone, recycled red copper, weathering steel, and reclaimed woods — are sustainable, durable, and low maintenance.......more

Edge House | Aspen | Colorado | Studio B

The 1.75-acre site is wedged between steep avalanche fields beneath Shadow Mountain and overhangs Castle Creek below. Topography slopes twenty-four feet across the building envelop and the angularity of it offered both challenges and opportunity. The site offers expansive views and an ‘in-town’ location while exposed to intensive full-day sun and avalanche concerns. The program is separated into service, private and public wings and utilizes the grade change to link and unify the 10,600 square foot residence. The plan accepts the many angularities of the site and the resulting architecture reflects this. Because of the exposed site and proximity to the entrance to Aspen, its massing and scale were required to be ‘reduced’ in apparent size and height by city approvals........more

Bartlit Residence | Castle Pines,Colorado | Lake-Flato Architects

Mature stands of ponderosa pine, scrub oak, and native grasses amongst the granite outcroppings form the natural ecology of the site. The design is a series of low granite walls threaded into the hill forming the base of the house. Superimposed on this granite base are light exposed steel and glass "pavilions" whose copper roofs tilt to catch the sun and views. A sod roof "meadow" covers the guest rooms and further merges the house with the natural landscape.....more