Yellowstone Residence by Stuart Silk Architects
Located in Big Sky, Montana, this luxury mountain home has been designed in 2018 by Stuart Silk Architects.
Description
Perched at 8,100 feet on the side of a mountain in Montana?s Madison Range, the massing and materials of this house are derived from the powerful landscape. The exterior of the house is a composition of Core-ten steel and board-formed concrete, materials which metaphorically and directly embrace the harsh realities of the site and its immediate environment.
The 6,100-square-foot residence is organized by two, massive eighteen-inch-thick perpendicular board-formed concrete wall which cleaves the house and extends into the landscape to the north and south. ?The first wall runs north/south and leads one into the house and directs views at Pioneer Peak,? notes architect Stuart Silk. ?The second is faceted in four directions towards a tall narrow window providing peak-a-boo views from the living room in the otherwise windowless wall.? Approached alongside the wall, one is led to the entrance, a large, steel, pivot door. The wall continues through the house and extends thru the living room, where it directs the view across a timbered valley directly toward the 9,800 foot summit of Pioneer Mountain and the sky itself. The use of Core-ten helps merge the home with the rocky soil, becoming an outgrowth of its site. A second four-foot-thick concrete wall runs perpendicularly to the first wall and features faceted planes that angle towar...
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