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Desert Fabric

Program

Museum - Restaurant - Residency

Location

Joshua Tree, CA

Year

2025

Desert Fabric

The structure tells a story of naturality, designed to feel as if it belongs to Joshua Tree and has always been there. It acts as an installation that represents the essence of the desert through its form, flowing the natural landscape and echoing its textures and colors. Rather than reading as an intervention, the project aims to feel like a pre-existing condition, something that the desert itself created. The building becomes an inhabitable work of art that becomes a home for the work belonging to the desert's artist.

Elevation

Elevation

Site axonometric

Site Axonometric

Site plan

Site Plan

Landscape diagram

Landscape Diagram

Cut plan

Cut Plan

Circulation diagram

Circulation Diagram

Structural diagram

Structural Diagram

Topography diagram

Topography Diagram

Massing chunk

Massing Chunk

Long section perspective

Long Section Perspective

Perspective

Perspective

Perspective 2

Perspective 2

Section perspective

Section Perspective

Concrete detail

Concrete Detail

Concrete and glass

Concrete and Glass

Concrete and foundation

Concrete and Foundation

Wall section detail

Wall Section Detail

Foundation section detail

Foundation Section Detail