Last spring, we broke ground on a contemporary landscape project nestled in the hills above Boulder. It serves as a transition between the clients’ contemporary house and their Ponderosa forest surroundings.

Echoing the perfect angles of the architecture, the lines of the formal landscape reach out to the forest while also drawing it into the space where our clients can entertain guests with their pool, cooking, dining, and fire lounge areas.

With grasses as a matrix for the garden, the foliage of the structured space merges with the montane grassland in a way that immerses the user in nature from the comfort of their designed mountain retreat.

The entrance of the home maintains a formal aesthetic through order and repetition while echoing the grasses of the ecosystem.