Discovery Park Lodge, designed by GGL Architecture, consists of a 3-story wood framed apartment complex over a full basement parking garage. The main floor is “framed” with a post-tensioned concrete slab to allow for the parking garage below. The wood framed structure above consisted of bearing walls, wood sheathed lateral system, I-joist floor system, and a combination of stick frame and pre-engineered wood trusses. The building will be used for low income elderly housing with options to buy or lease each unit. The building has kitchen facilities and is fully equipped for elderly services.

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This 3,500 square foot custom home is divided into four adjoining sections and includes separate garage and storage areas. The residence is wood and timber framed construction with steel Vierendeel truss system and showcases stone veneer inside and out. The house features floor to ceiling windows and covered patio space along the entire wall facing the lake. The residence also features a private timber bridge, separate garage and storage facility, and covered outdoor patio and stone fireplace. The foundation construction required blasting to down to rock.

This developer’s property lies on the ski hill in Aspen and features a ski-in/ski-out location. Taking advantage of an obviously sloped site, the residence has both a walk-out level to the lower hill and partial basement below the walkout. In order to preserve escape routes at the basement level, concrete window wells were created and covered in stone to preserve exterior aestetics while meeting fire code. This is a four-story wood framed building with steel framing to preserve open floorplan and multiple floor height changes at each level and has a 24-foot tall retaining wall inside residence to support the upper driveway and parking . There is extensive stonework both inside and out, wraparound stone deck/patio and multiple patios and balconies and antique timber wrapped around steel trusses and knee braces as well as true timber trusses, beams and purlins. The circulation between floors has both an elevator and a 23-foot vaulted space with custom window along timber tread staircase.

The house is approximately 15,000 square feet and has three stories that are located high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. There is a 52-foot x 32-foot Lodge Room accented with log purlins, valleys, and log trusses to create a huge vaulted space. There are over 2000 square feet of exterior decks and balconies framed out of rough sawn pine timbers that are supported by stone-wrapped piers. Character logs were hand picked by the architect to be placed at strategic locations such as the stair well. Several dozen steel beams are hidden within the floor cavities to allow for large, column free spaces such as the Family Room, the Rec. Room, the Kitchen and the Garage. The owner requested the floor to have a maximum L/1000 deflection criteria and the Lodge Room was designed to support 100 psf live load. The roof is extremely complicated with several dormers and shed dormers, valleys and hips. The roof is supported mostly by structural log members.

The house is approximately 20,000 square feet and has four stories that overlook Flathead Lake. It is built into the side of a mountain, thus creating a two-story daylight basement. There is a four-car garage, a 22-foot tall swimming pool room, and over 4000 square feet of exterior decks and balconies.