Under construction. This house is located in far north Boulder, Colorado, at the farthest edge bordering on Open Space and the foothills.  The design weaves the functional requirements of barrier-free design and access with a variety of interior spaces to make a kind of internal landscape that is the analog to the landscape outside the [...]

  This house is built on the same site up Sunshine Canyon as a former house lost in the Fourmile Fire of September 2010, just west of Boulder, Colorado.  The house looks out to the south to capture views from Denver to the Indian Peaks creating a syncopated panorama.  The entire structure is design as [...]

This house is located on a very steeply sloping boulder field in the foothills west of Boulder with spectacular views back through the foothills down to the plains. The design combines the owner’s desire to extend these views to as many rooms as possible and to create a courtyard-type plan, while synthesizing the owner’s interest [...]

In development. This weekend house is located in the wind-swept South Park basin in south central Colorado.  Three couples, one with children, two without, wanted to create a simple vacation house where they can spend weekends together and have closer access to Colorado’s high mountains, ski resorts and flyfishing streams. The house consists of a [...]

Inspired by the parallel rocky ridges of the site’s rolling foothills, each section of the house is angled to capture the dramatic view of distant Bear Tooth Mountain. This house nestles into a small rise on the site, concentrating the major living spaces on one level, with accommodations for guests and an office on the [...]

Sitting on a steeply sloping site in the foothills outside of Boulder, this house was designed for a family moving from Los Angeles who wanted the contemporary/ modern feel of a southern CA aesthetic, but adapted to the Colorado environment and climate. To address the environmental challenges of the location, the house stretches along the [...]

This project is the design of a small house for the relatively flat plains around Loveland, Colorado facing the western mountains.  The site is tightly bounded on its two long sides running east-west and frames a view to Longs Peak and the Indian Peaks to the west. At the center of the property, a magnificent [...]

This is single family house designed for a steep, west-facing slope outside of Nederland, Colorado.  Located just below Hurricane Hill Drive, this house is organized by a series of parallel bearing walls providing lateral support against the extremely high winds sweeping across the Continental Divide through the site. The east side of the house tucks [...]

This is the design for a speculative townhouse designed for a site in the Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago. The project centers around a large two-story bookcase/fireplace that is wrapped by the stairs accessing the private realm of the bedrooms upstairs. The brick exterior makes a kind of exoskeleton to house the clients, making a [...]