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Positioned in the open valley of the Grand Teton Mountain Range in Jackson, Wyoming, with majestic mountain views in all directions, this house prides the view of Grand Teton peak as its backdrop.
The clients, a family from Chicago, recognized the site’s potential and the brief was to create a timeless piece of architecture that would enhance rather than compete with the surrounding beauty. With horses and cattle roaming, the house design was to respect the western environment, have a calm and quiet, and provide an open floor plan with walls of windows that could fill each room with light and mountain views.
The home needed to maintain the harmony of the setting and the structural design of three gabled roofs aligned with the jagged mountain peaks and achieved exactly that. Under the roofline the building is broken down into living, bedrooms and guesthouse. The simple western aesthetic shows through in the abundant use of specified wood surfaces to both the interior and exterior, and accompanied use of impressive natural stone in the fireplace surrounds, balcony pavers and garden walls.
The house sits discretely in its mountainous surrounds, with the sense of scale working proportionately amongst the landscape. The large expanses of glass and composition of gabled and flat roofs, and western aesthetic, combine to create a modern home enveloping the natural and local environment, and paying tribute to the impressive Mountain Range.
