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Blackbird House in Aspen
Rocky Mountains Ski Resort House Project: Luxury Colorado Residence USA ? design by Will Bruder Architects
15 Oct 2016
Blackbird House, Aspen
Location: Rocky Mountains – Colorado, USA
Design: Will Bruder Architects

The Blackbird House is located on a small cul de sac lot three blocks from the main ski lift in downtown Aspen. The site offers spectacular 360-degree views.

In a neighborhood of modest mid-century modern houses and apartments, the architecture?s floor plan and section are a creative response to the town?s urban form-based zoning codes. While generous the project respects a building scale complimentary to the community?s historic fabric of wood-sided one bedroom miner?s cabins and delicately detailed 19th Century Victorian homes.
The plan geometry is shaped by the arch of the cul de sac?s center point and the radial north and south edges of the home?s 0.21 acre site. The height is sensitively responsive to the town of Aspen?s desire to maintain a comfortable small town human scale.

The relatively modest cul de sac facing entry is richly detailed with vertical charred (Shou-Sugi-Ban Cypress boards and custom formed standing seam anthra-zinc metal cladding). Generous window apertures are placed to capture the surrounding views while the architecture visually recedes into the shadows of the aspen and conifer trees that surroun...