Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture - California Desert Retreat

Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture – California Desert Retreat

Four Eyes House by Edward Ogosta Architecture

This contemporary 3,800 square foot Four Eyes House is designed by California-based studio Edward Ogosta Architecture in the desert of the Coachella Valley, Southern California, USA. This weekend desert residence is an exercise in site-specific experiential programming. The house was designed as an instrument for intensifying a number of onsite phenomenal events.

Four Eyes House common space design

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.

Four Eyes House desert residence

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.