Jones Studios’ Sculptural Lacey Residence is a Rammed Earth Home in the Arizona Desert

This spacious home rises from the humble earth in Arizona and plays with gentle contours of the land. Designed by <a href="http://www.jonesstudioinc.com/index.htm">Jones Studio</a>, the Lacey Residence is made from <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/rammed-earth/">rammed earth</a> and presents an interpretation of the sloping desert site, adding a visual layer of strata to the tan landscape. A closer look at the home reveals rock formation-like details that protrude from the earthen walls, as raw wood elements weather the intense sun.

The home is actually a series of smaller offset buildings lined closely together with breezeways connecting the interiors. The result is a very open and connected feeling to the landscape without any of the 4,000 square feet being exposed to the intense daytime sun.

At first glance the home looks like a single, level mass playing off the gently sloping landscape with the back drop of Papago Peak.

The floor to ceiling glass plays counter to the heavy walls.

Texture abounds with a <a href="http://inhabitat.com/minimalist-adobe-brick-home-is-a-box-within-a-box/">minimal disturbance</a> of the landscape beyond the walls.

The coolness is achieved in part by the sheer mass of the walls and the <a href="http://inhabitat.com/arizona-life-science-building-has-a-really-really-big-roof/">deep overhangs</a> created by layers of small dimensional lumber shooing out from the roof.

If things do get too hot a quick dip in the lap pool should be sufficient.

The angular outcroppings of the walls are a truly sculptural expression and push the aesthetic quality of working with rammed earth as a materiel.

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