We build wood partitions that reduce the visual presence of cars, these screens float between trees and create previously invisible divisions. The property is now a room within the forest you’re inside, outside. We build a long fence that creates a compound-like quality to the property. Our landscape approach / strategy is to “landscape” as little as possible, because it’s a fool’s errand to garden in the woods. What is outside, what is inside? To inhabit a shelter is to cross a threshold, nothing more. For the ground plane surface of the cabins we use a patterned flooring that looks like little sticks of mulch the natural ground outside is dusted with little sticks of mulch. Plywood, a highly processed but “natural” material, harkens to the forest and towering trees hovering just outside the building shell the wild animal stares at the animal trapped in a cage at the zoo. Within the interiors, we use a minimalist, cost-effective materials palette that riffs on notions of nature + artificiality. A completely new thing inhabits the shell of an old thing. The architectural approach / strategy is to leave the exterior facades of the cabins intact, neutralize them by painting them black, and then completely rebuild the interiors. The sparks are there and, thus, the romance begins. The cabins were in a terrible way, but the land is gorgeous and it’s uniquely situated such that it’s both pleasantly isolated yet close to town. Colorado Lodge is an ongoing and iterative experiment in design, construction and friendship.įunctionally speaking, it’s a collection of cabins (you can rent!) situated on 2 acres of beautiful land in Big Bear, California. Conceptually speaking, it is an exploration into ways of being with / in / out / side nature.Ībout two years ago we first crossed paths with the property and after thoroughly not thinking through the magnitude of the property and project, we purchased it.
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