The Touchdown Home is a contemporary wooden pavilion built-in into the rugged pure panorama of the Mojave Desert, in opposition to the backdrop of California’s Joshua Tree Nationwide Park. Roughly 130 miles east of Los Angeles, and solely minutes from the doorway to Joshua Tree Nationwide Park, The Touchdown Home is seemingly worlds away. Designed with sustainability at its core, and at each flip, the house masterfully blends into the format, textures, and coloration palette of its desert canvas.
The Touchdown Home has emerged as a refuge designed for privateness and tranquility, obtainable for the world at massive to expertise as a trip rental hosted by Homestead Trendy. A 400-yard non-public street leads via terrain flanked by Joshua bushes, winding its method to a 9-foot-high horizontal wall that absolutely conceals the home.
A strategically-planted dancing Yucca tree welcomes friends and demarcates The Touchdown Home’s built-in entrance. By the neatly hid entrance, first glimpses of the home emerge from a breezeway touchdown dividing two volumes to the left and proper, with an open courtyard straight forward that frames the Mojave Desert and overlooks a plunge pool.
The Touchdown Home’s heat and considerate stability of pure supplies and fashionable facilities offers a comforting core within the embrace of an untouched native panorama. The floorplan options two bookended bed room suites, with the breezeway touchdown connecting the home as two wings. At one finish, a bed room suite with a uniquely designed spherical window connects to a predominant floorplan encompassing a front room, a kitchen, and a devoted workspace. To the opposite facet of the breezeway, a second bed room with non-public entry, often called the Pool Suite, occupies roughly a 3rd of the home.
The Touchdown Home are clad in cedar wall paneling, with barely polished concrete flooring, and thoughtfully-designed white oak furnishings. Ground-to-ceiling sliding glass doorways present unobstructed views of the pristine desert panorama, and all areas of the ground plan overlook a plunge pool within the courtyard.
Architects: Business of All Nations; Space: 850 ft²; 12 months: 2023; Pictures: Ye Rin Mok; Producers: Louis Poulsen, Fleetwood , Actual Cedar, Trizo 21; Building: Mano a Mano;
Supply: Inside Zine
