The Skow house reinterprets the use of a standard lumber pack and existing block stem wall. The inverted roof of “el sombrero,” towers and floats above the desert floor with sweeping views of Monument Valley. Features include: inverted roof trusses, straw bale walls, post and beam construction, oil pipes as columns, glass curtain wall, rocket stove and a compressed earth block floor to name a few. A complex house that will be complete in the coming months!
The Nakai house surrounds a bookshelf and captures the spirit of the client and the surrounding homestead. A parabolic roof that seems to move with the wind and the surrounding dunes rises above a spandrel glass rain screen that reflects the desert landscape. A ribbon window frames Cedar Mesa perfectly while seated at the kitchen table and a window seat projects outward beneath the shade of a tree, a place for Lorraine to read. One of the few DBB homes to complete construction in 5 months and the first to end the semester with the lights on, thank you Mike Steele!
A special thanks to Big-D Construction and Park City contractors, Don Craig and Bill Hart for the stockpile of beautiful building materials.
- Andrew Foster
