Check out the desert retreat in Central Oregon designed to look outward towards the rolling dunes, local volcanoes and bright skies ❤️
A composition of box volumes and opaque and transparent surfaces form a chic family retreat in the desert landscape of Central Oregon
Both exterior and interior walls are made out of cedar for a sense of tactility, and plenty of openings connect the house to its context.‘It has this feeling that you’re in a place that’s brand new,’ principle designer Corey Martin says of Central Oregon, the location for his Portland-based firm Hacker Architects’ recent residential getaway project.
‘The building itself tries to edit and frame and take the experience of the landscape visually apart when you’re inside it,’ he continues. The form starts with a basic box whose elements become articulated and separated and reunited with long swaths of cedar siding. These opaque surfaces work in concert with massive open walls of windows divided only by the thinnest of frames, and smaller apertures, all of which stack together to create a rhythm of constant enclosure and reveal.
Both exterior and interior walls are made out of cedar, so as to promote both a visual continuity and a sense of tactility, and the only other colors are white and black. The architecture is in service of looking – and in particular, looking outward. ‘You’re getting forced to look at the sky, and you’re getting layering that lets you consider all these pieces of the landscape at different times, at different qualities of light,’ Martin says.
‘It’s got this freshness in quality of light and smells,’ Martin continues, describing the relative youth of the local volcanoes. And that’s the conceptual heart of this project. It’s not about finding what you thought you were looking for; it’s about what you end up seeing. §
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