位置:美国 科罗拉多州
分类:别墅建筑
内容:实景照片
图片:10张
This house is conceived as both an abstraction of the landscape on which it is situated and as a reinhabited ruin; like a ruin built in reverse. Located on a steep, heavily wooded site in the Rocky Mountains, the house is organised along two axes, forming a pinwheel plan inserted into the site between two ravines.
Stonewalls extend into the landscape to form the ruinous image. These vertical surfaces echo the nature of the site, while mediating between the exterior and interior spaces of the house. As contiguous surfaces, the stone walls were initially
conceived, and then detailed, as having .1 carefully constructed character. They form the image of a natural extension of the landscape while being rendered as something conceived and built by man. As such, a naturalistic approach was taken to how the stone would appear, though this was punctuated with controlled linear stone elements at every eighteen to twenty-four inches in order to give a sense of scale to these elements.
From the drive, the guesthouse defines one end of the exterior court, from which one enters the main house by bridge over a ravine, penetrating a massive stonewall.