The Maroon Creek Lodge - Aspen, CO
Designed in 2001 for the same owner as the Castle Creek Lodge, this home was meant to be a downsizing in both square footage and, to a degree, in level of finish. The owner had found herself alone too often in the first of Fitz's creations for her, so she came to him with the desire for even smaller rooms and an overall cozier plan. The site she found was severely sloped across the long direction so the design was to be a tiered series of landscaped and hardscaped partiers, each containing varying levels of privacy in their prescribed living function and each oriented toward the mountain formation for which it was named.
While unfortunately un-built, the drawings of the home are beautiful to look at and fun to explore; and the design of the residence clearly reflects both the thinking and method of organizing that Fitzgerald and the NAKA Designs team would later use extensively in their residential portfolio. Rooms are arranged axially, circulation is more like celebration, inside rooms merge with outside spaces, and special functions such as hearth, study, dining and reading are made special by the well-scaled spaces dedicated to them and the intricate sectional relationships between private and public space.
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Designed in 2001 for the same owner as the Castle Creek Lodge, this home was meant to be a downsizing in both square footage and, to a degree, in level of finish. The owner had found herself alone too often in the first of Fitz's creations for her, so she came to him with the desire for even smaller rooms and an overall cozier plan. The site she found was severely sloped across the long direction so the design was to be a tiered series of landscaped and hardscaped partiers, each containing varying levels of privacy in their prescribed living function and each oriented toward the mountain formation for which it was named.
While unfortunately un-built, the drawings of the home are beautiful to look at and fun to explore; and the design of the residence clearly reflects both the thinking and method of organizing that Fitzgerald and the NAKA Designs team would later use extensively in their residential portfolio. Rooms are arranged axially, circulation is more like celebration, inside rooms merge with outside spaces, and special functions such as hearth, study, dining and reading are made special by the well-scaled spaces dedicated to them and the intricate sectional relationships between private and public space.
