Emerging from the desert, Canyon House is equal parts land-form and mechanism for viewing. Stoic on the exterior - but more than an object in the landscape - Canyon House blurs the boundary between inside and out, imprinting the exterior environment onto the interior of the home: revealing life as a series of moments, vistas and reflections.

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Architects: HK Associates

Location: Tucson, United States

Site: 43560.0 ft2

Area: 4500.0 ft2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Bill Timmerman

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Text description provided by the architects. Emerging from the desert, Canyon House is equal parts land-form and mechanism for viewing. Stoic on the exterior - but more than an object in the landscape - Canyon House blurs the boundary between inside and out, imprinting the exterior environment onto the interior of the home: revealing life as a series of moments, vistas and reflections.
© Bill Timmerman

Sited to frame the Catalina Mountains to the north and the Tucson Mountains to the southwest, the over-riding intent was for the clients to live "in the view" - sensory immersion being the driving concept and effect of the architecture.

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The manifestation of this immersive experience is the canyon-like living space at the center of the home. Flanked on the  east and west by the service and bedroom wings, and looking north and ...