The Zen Garden House: House Design with Magical View of Mountain by David Jay Weiner Architect

Inspired by Traditional Japanese House, New York based architects David Jay Weiner was design in the Crestone – Colorado called The Zen Garden House. This house designed with sense of serenity and repose in connection with how a structure relates to the landscape and how interior spaces flow into each other and are oriented to specific views.

The Zen Garden House contains three major interior spaces—a living room, dining room and kitchen, flanked by a meditation room on one side and a master bedroom suite on the other. The exterior envelope of black corrugated-metal siding folds, wraps, and bends to define the central interior space, which is vaulted on one side and has a continuous clerestory extending around three sides. Low stucco walls extend out to the landscape to define an entry court and encircle a Zen rock garden adjacent to the meditation room.




While most of Crestone’s residents live at the foot of the peaks, Weiner’s client chose a 22-acre plot of land on the valley floor, distanced enough from the mountains to offer spectacular views of them and of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, which occupies 63 acres of the valley 10 miles south. The house’s sleek lines and spare interior spaces make a unique contribution.