Hinge House by Workaday
Hinge House is a 2024 house by Workaday in the foothills of Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Set to capture both city and mountain views, it turns early decisions about orientation into the project’s clearest architectural move: roof planes that intersect, lift, and shade. Inside, high windows, broad glazing, stone, and pale wood keep daylight and the landscape close in every room.
About Hinge House
From the approach, the house reads as a low composition of gray stone, dark metal, and sharply angled roofs set against dry grasses and pines. Then the geometry shifts. What looks compact from the entry opens toward the slope, where broad glazing catches distant city views and a long roof edge throws shade across the terrace.
Hinge House is a house in Colorado Springs, Colorado, designed by Workaday and completed in 2024. Its central idea is plain to see. Early decisions about orientation shape the whole arrangement, from the folded roof planes above to the way each major room keeps a direct line to daylight and the outdoors.
Turn The Roof
The roof is the project’s clearest move. Rather than forming a single ridge, intersecting planes lift and tilt to admit light from above, creating a sequence of clerestory openings that break the ceiling into a series of angled surfaces.
That geometry does real work. Overhangs temper sun at the perimeter, while the raised sections pull daylight deeper into the main living areas and give the interior a stronger sense of direction.
Center The Living Core
At the heart of the house, dining, kitchen, and sitting areas gather under the highest ceiling. One room, many readings. A large wood table anchors the center, a marble island runs parallel to it, and a dark stone fireplace mass fixes the far end with weight and focus.
Circulation stays easy and direct. The entry slides into this central volume, and from there the eye moves outward through tall black-framed doors and windows toward the foothills and the city below.
Warm The Light
Inside, the palette relies on a steady contrast between cool and warm surfaces. Gray stone and dark metal give the envelope a certain heft, while white walls, light wood floors, and a wood-lined ceiling keep the rooms bright even where the roof folds low.
The effect is calm without going flat. Sunlight skims across the sloped ceiling boards, catches the grain in the cabinetry, and sharpens the edges of window frames, pendants, and hardware.
Extend The View
Private rooms follow the same logic. In the bedroom, a high angled ceiling and tall glazing stretch the volume upward, while restrained furnishings leave the view to carry the room.
The bathrooms push that connection further. A freestanding tub sits directly beside a full-height window, and even the secondary powder room turns inward only briefly, using a mural landscape and brass-toned fixtures to echo the larger setting in a more intimate register.
Across the house, windows are placed for more than outlook. They set up a steady exchange between enclosure and exposure, so that walls still hold the rooms firmly even as light arrives from several directions.
By the end, the project feels less like an object on a site than a frame adjusted to its horizon. Stone grounds it. Above, the folded roof keeps turning light, shade, and view into the daily structure of the house.
Photography courtesy of Workaday
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