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Aspen Alps 215
Aspen Alps 215
Aspen, CO, United States
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Aspen Alps 215
Aspen, CO, United States
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2020
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
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As an upper level unit, this project focused on opportunities within the ceiling plane and the unit's interiority. Increased indoor-outdoor relationships were achieved with the introduction of skylights and lateral sources of daylight given to the interior via material selections and detailing. Increasing the phenomenological exchange with the natural terrain focused on creating a heightened awareness of alpine daylight and landscape.
Awareness of the movement of light across the living area floor and exterior reflections brought into the space
through a 16’ long sliding fade glass room divider both maximized light, air, views and reflected views to and
from the immediate surroundings.
‘Areas’ or spatial zones were created under an all encompassing ceiling plane vis-a-vis walled room definitions. Lateral migration of space across room boundaries created an expansiveness always bleeding into a larger whole; at the bottom and top of the sliding fade glass room divider, the transoms over the bedroom entrances and the continuity of the ceiling system itself.
The challenge was to maximally transform the space through design. The ceiling detail that created a service plenum allowed the wood veneer base sheet to redefine the character of the spatial container and provided a system for inserting a field of lights. The ceiling - a light wooden, vigorously textured plane, an abstracted tree canopy - was inspired by the graphic work of Herbert Bayer, an emigrated Bauhaus master and long time Aspen resident and informed its making. Similarly the floor, an unbroken and dark plane of basalt stone anchors the composition, in stark
opposition to the character of the ceiling.
Awareness of the movement of light across the living area floor and exterior reflections brought into the space
through a 16’ long sliding fade glass room divider both maximized light, air, views and reflected views to and
from the immediate surroundings.
‘Areas’ or spatial zones were created under an all encompassing ceiling plane vis-a-vis walled room definitions. Lateral migration of space across room boundaries created an expansiveness always bleeding into a larger whole; at the bottom and top of the sliding fade glass room divider, the transoms over the bedroom entrances and the continuity of the ceiling system itself.
The challenge was to maximally transform the space through design. The ceiling detail that created a service plenum allowed the wood veneer base sheet to redefine the character of the spatial container and provided a system for inserting a field of lights. The ceiling - a light wooden, vigorously textured plane, an abstracted tree canopy - was inspired by the graphic work of Herbert Bayer, an emigrated Bauhaus master and long time Aspen resident and informed its making. Similarly the floor, an unbroken and dark plane of basalt stone anchors the composition, in stark
opposition to the character of the ceiling.
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