Designed in 2015 by Marwan Al-Sayed, this luxurious desert house is located in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Description
Concept
A ten acre desert site that contains two desert washes. A modern, yet archaic architecture of walls that contain space and space that contains walls. Space becomes thinned out form and form becomes condensed space. Massive walls inscribed in the earth. From above, snake like and calligraphic in form blurring boundaries between outside and inside, courtyards and rooms, container and contained.
Wonderful vistas to both nearby desert landscapes and distant peaks.
Walls are introduced, repetitively and deliberately, compressed and then elongated as the space or view dictates. Snake like mass walls of light 3? Veracruz Mexican saw cut limestone, moving in and out of the living spaces, blurring boundaries?light fabric overhangs delicately suspended between the mass walls. Walls containing space, life, courts, water, trees, laughter, thoughts and shadows. The stacking of the stone is inspired by both memories of a beautiful Japanese bamboo cutting board, with its even and subtle yet irregular offsets?..as well as the work of abstract painter Agnes Martin?.repetitive with subtle differences creating a complex box of depth and surface. The effect is not unlike a mother of pearl box, created by the shimmering variations of the stone and how it is laid, both regularly yet with deliberate variation. Roland Barthes ?repetition differente?.
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