America has many spectacular sites but this property is unique among them. The site is located at an elevation of 9,200 feet and had already been excavated for a discontinued residential project. Our normal preoccupation with not impacting the landscape reverted here to rehabilitating and reforesting the uprooted site. This was not a situation where capturing the landscape was the challenge but providing a major sustainable architecture in such a fragile but challenging environment. The landscape itself is so dominant, spectacular, and immediate, with its alpine vistas on the horizon the design called for an architecture that moved the scale of the exterior into the interior.
The house’s energy sources are seventy-two geo-thermal wells and a generator, meaning that it can virtually function independent of outside support services. The wells heat the driveways, pool, and house during the coldest winter months and cools during the summer without depleting any fossil fuels.
If I had unlimited money I’d move to Aspen in a heartbeat. “where the beer flows like wine”
This is a really nice house. Thanks Jim
I’ll take that house, as long as they can relocate it to Vail 😉
“…fragile but challenging environments”
It’s only challenging if your not well connected and super wealthy.
I dig the architectual details, but the house looks so cold and desolate to me. A house, but not a home. I also don’t like cold weather. Although I would still buy that Razor house in La Jolla. I could get over the “home” bit there. Especially with the black helicopter, etc…