Montane Ranch | Yodezeen
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Montane Ranch

Architectural and landscape vision to emphasize the ethnic features
About

Brief

Among the mountains, forests, and meadows, YODEZEEN architects are building a huge ranch measuring 40,000 square feet of contemporary architecture within 860 acres. The visitors can wander around the ranch all day, enjoying how nature flows into architecture, creating a unique landscape.

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Location:

Aspen, Colorado, USA
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Square meters:

40,000 ft² / 3,716m²
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Date:

In progress
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Team:

Arthur Sharf, co-founder and lead architec, Artem Zverev, co-founder and lead architect, responsible for architecture: Khrystyna Haliuta, Maks Sydorchuk, Yuliana Danilenko, responsible for interior design: Alina Andriushchenko

Layout

Every new corner is about a new architect’s fantasy: the main stable, technical houses, managing house, workshop, and a large lake with waterfalls and wooden transition paths. The stable with a glass roof atrium forms the concept of the project, and the roof layers wrapped to the sky form an individual style of its architecture and emphasize the mix of modern and ethnic features of the region.

Concept and Implementation

Every new corner is about a new architect’s fantasy: the main stable, technical houses, managing house, workshop, and a large lake with waterfalls and wooden transition paths. The stable with a glass roof atrium forms the concept of the project, and the roof layers wrapped to the sky form an individual style of its architecture and emphasize the mix of modern and ethnic features of the region.

A large accent lake creates the landscape perspective of the ranch. It is a dominant feature of the landscape, which unites around it all the architectural compositional solutions of the entire ranch. Architects designed this lake taking into account the most natural techniques – rocky shores, wooden paths, and bridges over the water. The lake also carries a functional load and plays the role of a place for relaxation, and calming down after riding horses. YODEZEEN also created a bridge across the lake, which is also an accent element of the entire composition of the ranch.

Materials

YODEZEEN architects chose reclaimed wood, stone, metal, and tiles as the main materials. The dimensional format of the tile that decorates the facade also has an elongated shape and so adds visual dynamism to the whole composition.

The entrance group also has its own feature in terms of landscape composition, it consists of the use of bent stainless steel plates, which create the effect of merging the architectural form with the environment. Curved metal plates decorate entrance portals and horse gates, thus visually supporting the curved roofs.