DESERT:Villa is a single family residence on an elevated site with spectacular views over the southwest mountains and across the valley to Las Vegas, Nevada. The house provides a varied program while occupying as small a footprint as possible. As a contemporary formal expression, the house organizes large, shaded exterior spaces with open plan living, guest, and sleeping areas. The massive, concrete wrapper folds and notches to form walls, floors, and roof. The building is open to the expansive southern and western views, and more closed to the east, with punched openings along the long axis. It provides deep shade and efficient thermal mass by extending beyond the thin columns.

• Landscape
• Residential