GREENE RESIDENCE

Overall, the clients were looking for a sense of warmth, comfort and protection, with a comingling of interior and exterior worlds. They felt that the house should be responsive to the site and preserve some of the characteristics of the mesa and be an organic part of it. Indoors, they wanted a sense of expansive shelter, without excluding the outdoors.

This house is an example of modernism that has been regionalized to fit and accent the site’s dramatic beauty. The theme of “a house as a permanent camp” was contrasted with the permanent contemporary building elements of copper, steel and glass. Conceptually, two “L” shaped stone walls define the main spine and heart of the house and. With more than 2,000 square feet of developed exterior patios, roof terraces and skywalks, the house allows Nature to claim its heart.

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