Ghost Wash House Paradise Valley, Ariz. Architecture-Infrastructure-Research

摘要

With the design of the Ghost Wash House in Paradise Valley-a wealthy Phoenix community on the north side of Camelback Mountain-architect Darren Petrucci, aia, wants to bring what he calls "amenity infrastructure" from the urban to the domestic scale. The house forms a "third wash" between two existing desert dry streambeds that accept seasonal runoff from the mountain. It also channels the rainwater from infrequent storms via a butterfly roof-which Petrucci compares to a "nurse tree" that shades smaller plants and cacti-to the house's strip of courtyards, lawns, and living spaces. These cool and protected spaces, which run in sequence from north to south, are buttressed on both sides by stretches of bedrooms and service areas that offer a layer of protection from the harshness of the morning and afternoon sun.