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approach to these queries, Four Eyes
House is a project of interactions,
chiefly with the desert landscape. Both
the building and its arid surround are a
bit mind-bending; both exploit radical
openness; and both reinforce privacy
and interiority. Its lack of decorative
obscenity, indeed any affect at all,
allows for focused engagement
with the outdoor environment while
also responding to its frailties with
sustainable solutions: floor-to-ceiling
glass meant to capture natural light
and conserve energy, and an edifice
painted pure white to reflect heat and
control energy costs.
Orientation aids this engagement.
As the practice puts it: "Ground-
floor common spaces form a loose
connective field between discrete
old and conceptual to its
core, Four Eyes House is
"an exercise in site-specific
experiential programming,"
according to the practice.
Certainly there is nothing
per-usual about it. "Rather than
planning the house according to a
domestic functional program, the
building was designed foremost as an
instrument for intensifying a number
of onsite phenomenal events." Not
only does the architecture allow for
observing horizon and heavens alike,
it supports the contemplation of life's
big questions: one's role in the cosmos,
the human impact on Earth.
Taking a thoughtful yet proactive
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