TELLURIDE HOUSE

“Since being back from Telluride, I have been musing over the trip, both as a traveler and as an architect. It was a humbling experience. I cannot shake off the majestic red boulders from my system. The layers of the rock, the shelves, the projecting edges defying the gravity, are still resonating with me. I am thinking of the sunrise on the site, the early morning lights raking through the delicate and light-footed aspens. I am still smiling at the unexpected waterfalls coming down from the different corners of your eyes, or the sound of the creek passing through, ten steps away. I am still mesmerized by the sheer scale and spatial definition of the box canyon. ‘No photograph makes justice to this land’, I said aloud. ‘It is sublime!’

From architect’s diary – May 2016

Located on a spectacular site looking towards the majestic box canyon, Telluride house is conceived as three glass pavilions cascading up the steep slope of the mountainside.

Each pavilion projects out from the slope, allowing panoramic views from all three levels of the house.

The house responds with horizontal lines to verticality of the Aspens, and the sheer scale of the canyon.

The architectural concept of the house is defined by the horizontal floor slabs creating the open plan, enveloped with high performance sliding glass wall system specially engineered with almost no vertical mullions that will interfere with the scenery.

Axonometric View, showing the three pavilions cascading up the mountain, in between the Aspen trees.

Setbacks of the three pavilions are organized to create expansive terraces facing towards the Box Canyon.