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Tucson Mountain Retreat in Arizona
Modern Resort Building USA – design by D U S T, Architects
Apr 24, 2018
Tucson Mountain Retreat
Architect: D U S T
Location: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Tucson Mountain Retreat

A dream to reconnect his roots into the awe inspiring Sonoran Desert, along with a deep seeded desire to indulge in a love of music as lifestyle, provided the initial instigation for Dr. David Francis to build the Tucson Mountain Retreat, an experiential rammed earth home that embraces engagement with the raw, living, desert landscape.

The site, with over nine hundred feet abutting the pristine Saguaro National Park and three hundred and sixty degree views of endless towering Saguaro Cacti is an extremely rugged, lush and fragile expanse of land that exudes a sense stillness and permanency. It is at once a magical and mysterious landscape that beckons an architecture that is carefully situated and shaped by the immediate natural environment.
The initial decision to use rammed earth to build the project informed the entire process and contributes to integration of the home into the landscape. The inherent poetic qualities of rammed earth appear native beside the rock out-croppings and desert flora and fauna.

The program for this private residence is defined by a desire to share the gifts of the unspoiled location with a focus to allow the constantly changing dese...