大面积整体建筑元素的运用是该住宅的主要特点，这里有成片的中空墙壁，成片的反光玻璃墙壁，也有成片的裂纹墙壁。从院落到建筑空间，再到
手眼接触到的每一个细部都充斥着这一元素。墙面上的开口含蓄地透露着住宅内部的秘密。光面钢板天花板上的长长裂缝中安装了星星点点的灯具，
夜晚在偌大的空间内营造一种空无感。大片元素和原始材料的粗糙感正是索诺兰沙漠所呈现的最大特点。我们希望业主和客人们每一次从广阔的沙
漠走向住宅时都对物质的珍贵有新的体会。

Mass, Hollowed Mass, Faceted Mass, Fissured Mass, Mass that cracks open and hinges apart informed how we proceeded to give this home its 
defining qualities from the courtyard plan, to the split-massing, all the way down to the fittings and fixtures that one touches with the hand or 
the eye. For instance, the millwork is volumetric only revealing contents within when a contoured bronze void is touched with the fingertips 
allowing the mass to be gently cracked open. Long fissures in the mill-finish steel plate ceiling reveal light while maintaining the quality of 
nothingness at night. Mass and the improbability of delicacy discovered within it, is what gives the Sonoran Desert its remarkable presence. 
As our clients and their guests move into the mass of this landform into our Engawa, we hope they will always rediscover with a hint of surprise
the preciousness of things.

Desert Courtyard House
Project Size: 7,200 square feet
Project Location: Scottsdale, Arizona    
Project Team: Wendell Burnette (Principal - in - charge of Design), Thamarit Suchart (Project Manager / Chief Design Collaborator), 
Jena Rimkus, Matthew G. Trzebiatowski, Scott Roeder, Brianna Tovsen, Chris Flodin, Colin Bruce
Contractor: The Construction Zone, Ltd.
Consultants: Leavitt – Weaver, Inc (Interior Design); Rudow + Berry, Inc. (Structural Engineer); 
Associated Engineering (Electrical Engineer); Kunka Engineering, Inc. (Mechanical Engineer); 
Rick Engineering (Civil Engineer); Ljusarkitektur P&O AB (Lighting Design); 
Debra Dusenberry Landscape Design (Landscape Design); Wardin Cockriel Associates (Audio / Visual / Acoustical)

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