Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative

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Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative

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  • Completion year: 2016
  • Gross Built up Area: 622 sqm
  • Project Location: Paradise Valley
  • Country: USA
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Brent Kendle
  • Photo Credits: Michael woodall, chibi moku
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Excerpt: Desert wash, designed by Kendle Design Collaborative, is a unique modern home designed to celebrate nature and desert living. Rammed earth walls, expansive glass and floating steel and wood clad roofs shelter a family in modern beauty and provide the perfect backdrop for their extensive collection of art and Asian artifacts. Throughout the home you experience the site sensitivity of the project through its unique pallets and how the residence respects the natural qualities of the site.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] Desert Wash is a unique modern home designed to celebrate nature and desert living. A home that turns an unwelcome obstacle for traditional residential design, a desert wash which periodically floods throughout the year, into a focal feature of natural beauty that delights and inspires a young energetic family, teaching life lessons everyday about living as one with nature.

Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative
© Kendle Design Collaborative
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative
© Kendle Design Collaborative
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative
© Kendle Design Collaborative

Rammed earth walls, expansive glass and floating steel and wood clad roofs shelter a family in modern beauty and provide the perfect backdrop for their extensive collection of art and Asian artifacts. The video is a perfect example of how everyday living in the desert, amongst natures ever changing wonder, can be.

Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative SAVE
© Michael woodall
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative
© chibi moku

Desert wash uses the indigenous materials of the site to define the main living spaces. Rammed earth walls brings the earth to the interior. Welcoming one into the home and unifying it with nature simeltamously. Throughout the home you experience the site sensitivity of the project through its unique pallets and how the residence respects the natural qualities of the site. The home nestles its self into the earth while also respecting the natural topography of the site by spanning over the ancient wash.

Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative SAVE
© Michael woodall
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative SAVE
© Michael woodall
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative SAVE
© Michael woodall
Desert wash | Kendle Design Collaborative SAVE
© Michael woodall

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