Woods + Dangaran continues to sublimate the modernist soul of the American Western desert with its recent project in Utah.
The residential designs of Woods + Dangaran, founded by Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran, remain a feast for the eyes for lovers of modernist design and architecture in arid lands. Their first monograph (Éd. Rizzoli), which we highlighted in the pages of Acumen (29), took stock of their attachment to and ongoing celebration of this post-war American movement. Rectilinear shapes, open-plan spaces, eco-friendly materials, landscaping, modernist and contemporary furniture… All of this is found in one of their recent projects, Moccasin Flats, which further magnifies a revolutionary art of living adapted to the 21st century. The architects invite us to “Hurricane”, a town of over twenty thousand inhabitants in Utah, located just outside the Zion National Park Nature Reserve.
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© Woods + Dangaran
Blending Into the Landscape
vegetation. These parallelepipeds create an organic visual contrast to the extreme verticality of the raw mesa so typical of the American West. They offer both privacy and framed views of the desert panorama. The structure of plaster, stone and local concrete blends seamlessly into the setting. “On the outside, passers-by may not even notice the houses exist,” explains Joseph Dangaran. As for the open-plan interiors, with their three-metre ceilings, they generously let the sunshine flood in through atriums, skylights and glass skybridges, in a style of gentle Brutalism. The ensemble is enhanced by a full-length infinity pool, an invitation to well-being and conviviality in the open air.
© Woods + Dangaran
© Woods + Dangaran
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Architecture and interior design: Woods + Dangaran
Landscape Architecture: Ground Studio Landscape Architecture groundstudio.com
Development: Hidden Rock Development Group hiddenrockdevelopment.com
États-Unis – Utah