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Form Factor
When architect Ken Andrews first visited this double lot in Boulder’s Chautauqua neighborhood, he climbed onto the roof of the property’s decrepit house with his husband-and-wife clients, took in the panorama of the Flatirons, and said, “This is what it’s all about,” Andrews recalls. “They wanted to wake up and look at that view every morning.”
As his design for a new dwelling took shape, Andrews thought about the powerful geologic forces that formed the massive, angled slabs of red sandstone that make up the striking Flatirons. In particular, he considered the concept of vergence, which geologists use to describe the geometries of folds in rocks, from tiny crinkles to mountain-size bends.
“We imagined a stone fold that rises out of the ground and forms a series of walls in the landscape,” he says, referring to the limestone panels that seemingly emerge
