DESERT HOUSE

Second Year - Studio - Clark Thenhaus

All three projects “Farm House”, “Beach House” and “Desert House” are part of a series that shares a commentary on the relationship between Architecture and Nature

The Desert House is a statement on our attempt to contain nature. Here, a rock is placed in the water’s center underneath the home. The rock is visible from all floors of the home. Aside from the thermal qualities it provides, the rock acts as a statement on our dependent relationship with nature and its increasing fragility.

Mario Botta once said “architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.”

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Architecture at its core has two simple purposes. One is to create a visual landscape that sparks wonder inside the viewer, while the other is to respect and provide benefits to the ecosystem where it is built.

I graduated from California College of the Arts studying architecture. I am highly interested in material science, chemical engineering and the manipulation of existing materials through innovative fabrication processes. The future I see is not only formally and functionally beautiful but sustainable, efficient and accessible. We must challenge the possibilities of "now".