Edward Ogosta Architecture has designed a house based on accentuating the sensations of sleeping and waking. This site specific exercise encourages the residents to appreciate the surrounding views on another level on a 24hr basis. Pure, white, monolithic towers rise from a base of a complex geometry. The sunrise, the night time stars, the city lights and the mountains are the four themes that each of the four towers is orientated towards. The perfect weekend home for self awareness and relaxation.

A weekend desert residence for a family and their dog, the Four Eyes House is an exercise in site-specific experiential programming. 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.

Four ‘sleeping towers’ are oriented towards four spatiotemporal viewing experiences: morning sunrise to the east, mountain range to the south, evening city lights to the west, and nighttime stars overhead. Each tower contains a compact top-floor bedroom, sized only for the bed, and each with a unique aperture directed towards the view. These bedrooms are equally-sized and unassigned, such that the family’s sleeping locations can be rotated based on each individual’s desired viewing experience. Vertical circulation within the towers is similarly particularized (e.g. ladders, spiral stair, switchback stair, or shallow-riser stair). Ground-floor common spaces form a loose connective field between the discrete tower volumes, and offer a more permeable relationship to the landscape.

The sensations of sleeping and waking are thus inflected by the building’s foregrounding of intensified onsite experiential events. By sleeping in a room elevated off the ground and open to the stars, one might inhabit a deep pocket of silence for a few moments, and perhaps even perceive the movement of the Earth, as it slowly rotates beneath the stars.

ARCHITECT: Edward Ogosta Architecture, Los Angeles, California. LOCATION: Coachella Valley, California, USA. DESCRIPTION: residential. STATUS: completed. AREA: 3,800 sqf. DATE: 2010- present. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.