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The irony in building a home on a usurious hillside is the trouble in carving out the footmark of the structure without damaging the natural beauty that invigorate the building . But when landscape architect Richard Shaw of Aspen - based Design Workshop approached this labor in the Rocky Mountains near Woody Creek , Colorado , do work closely withPoss Architecture + Planning , he knew there was a manner to minimise the encroachment while maximizing the view and assets of the surroundings .
create a perimeter of thick bulwark specify the building space and protected nature outside that boundary . The rich palette of plants in the local aspen woods was then land up to the wall and into garden areas . Taking this process to the next point , the plant life mixes used , developed specifically for this projection , were attuned even to altitude and orientation .
tie in indoors and outdoors was the guiding force in the design of both family and garden . Says Shaw , " The landscape was not a striver to the architecture , " and the plan was a collaborative drive between landscape painting designer and designer . From inside , design and natural landscape , intimate spaces and breathtaking scene , can be visit from every elbow room and at every degree . Even outside , strategic gaps in garden wall frame views . Indoor living areas are on a stage with outside living areas and garden spaces , make for easy transition . At the philia is a court for entertaining , with a central puddle and a garden space of lawn and perennials that is also a green ceiling over service country . A encampment option for the bench means the company can go on even with frequent afternoon showers .
Another of Shaw ’s goals was to explore the " states of pee and how it can move . " Emerging as mist from a granite slab in the ledger entry courtyard , cascading from paries like snowmelt , traveling along runnels , reflecting the scenery in still pools , water becomes , visually and thematically , a connective cock , linking create and rude home ground . For more information , call 970 - 925 - 8354 or seedesignworkshop.com .
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