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In Aspen’s historic West Finish neighborhood, a basic 1890’s Victorian-Period house is rigorously restored to its unique type after years of non-historic additions and renovations. The Victorian is stabilized and strengthened, renovated, and linked to a recent addition and lower-level basement.Contained in the Victorian, the unique compartmentalized structure is opened to dynamic, multi-story volumes and free-flowing circulation.
Unified by these volumes, a three-story floating wooden stair overlooks the lower-level rec room under. A double-height kitchen with a wooden gabled ceiling above vertically expands the plan, filling the areas with gentle, and spills out to the courtyard and addition past.
A contemporary wooden and glass pavilion delicately connects to the historic Victorian, opening to the shared courtyard.
It’s milky-white glass cladding sitting atop a subdued ground-level base of sunshine cedar vertical siding is designed to softly replicate the mountain skies and adjoining foliage above, reworking with the rise and fall of the solar and ever-changing mountain setting. Inside, gentle stuffed bedrooms with views of the mountains and inside courtyard, present peaceable refuges amongst giant Aspen and Cottonwood tree canopies..
ASPEN | WEST END Gallery