Telluride Glass House, luxury home by Efficiency Lab for Architecture PLLC

Date of Publishing: November 10, 2021

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Telluride Glass House designed by Efficiency Lab for Architecture PLLC is a luxurious mansion, located in the scenic Telluride Box Canyon in Colorado. This house surrounded by Aspen trees – namely the Populus tremula. Also, the structure is extremely simple, consisting of three juxtaposed glass volumes. Although the construction took just a few weeks, but the project was years in the making and offer a very spectacular project to the life.

The layout on three levels provides a separation between privacy and common areas. The entrance to the house located on the ground floor. Where a first hallway and a stone living room can be found adjacent to the garage, to the guest bedrooms and to a games room. Ascending to the middle level, a large open space accommodates all the common spaces of the Glass House include the kitchen, a large living room and a dining room. In addition to this, the interior of the glass pavilions features Northern cedar flat ceiling planes. Also, it designed with recessed lighting to eliminate any hanging obstructions to the breathtaking views.

Indeed, the completed project immerses its inhabitants in nature. Where lines of snow on the railings and rooftop in winter blend into the striations of snow on the overhanging cliffs. Embraced by the mountains of the moonlit canyon, and framed by the stars above. Surely, the concept of living in a glass house is now a dream come true.

The Architecture Design Project Information:

Project Name: Telluride Glass House
Location: Telluride, Colorado, United States
Project Year: 2021
Designed by: Efficiency Lab for Architecture
Interior Design: Gachot Studios

Telluride Glass House, luxury home by Efficiency Lab for Architecture PLLC — The steep terrain of the mountainside played a major role in the architectural design. Hence, tThe three cascading pavilions are cantilevered and stacked in recession. Their composite steel and timber floor framing provides a tectonic lightness of the glass boxes. So that reinforces their anchoring to the stereotomic mass of the retaining walls.

On the two upper levels of the glasshouse, the interior polished concrete floors extend seamlessly beyond the glass walls to expansive exterior deck space, courtesy of the cascading design of the cantilevered pavilions.

The bedroom also designed with open spaces to take advantage from the spectacular panoramic views to the mountain.

The Telluride Glass House Gallery:

Text by the Architects: Efficiency Lab for Architecture PLLC, a firm comprising a team of architects, planners, designers, and educators committed to a better understanding of efficiency in the built environment, is proud to unveil the Telluride Glass House, nestled into the steep cliffs of the Telluride Box Canyon in Colorado. Carved into a vertical wall of Aspen trees, rock cliffs, and wandering creeks, on a 3.4-acre lot adjacent to majestic Bridal Falls, the house consists of three cascading glass boxes with a combined floor area of approximately 7,000 sq. ft.

Photo credit: Josh Johnson| Source: Efficiency Lab for Architecture

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