Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Rammed earth walls tie this modern home to the Arizona desert landscape

Architect Brent Kendle of Kendle Design Collaborative married architecture with the desert landscape in Desert Wash, a site-specific home that sweeps the natural environment indoors through walls of glass and rammed earth construction. Designed for an active family of four, the 6,700-square-foot abode in Paradise Valley, Arizona takes its name from the property’s existing desert dry wash, a biome located at a drainage area prone to severe flooding events. To embrace the natural landscape and mitigate...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/rammed-earth-walls-tie-this-modern-home-to-the-arizona-desert-landscape
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