Ghost Ranch
Preston, Idaho
- Architecture/
- Landscape Architecture/
- Interior Architecture
As a multi-generational retreat, Ghost Ranch brings together the identities of multiple inhabitants, providing them with spaces to live together and apart. Designed to sustain a growing and evolving family, the residential concept reflects their creative lifestyle and environmentally conscious ethos that resonates with the natural surroundings. The landscape serves as an enclosure, connecting the collection of residences and seamlessly integrating the building’s exterior with the rural site.
The design represents an evolution from the formal boundaries typically found on a suburban lot. In lieu of repetition and separation, unique and autonomous residences are clustered together to form a village with a central hearth.
A dense exterior trellis creates a porous, “living” perimeter, one that continually evolves, resulting in a hyperlocal and responsive ecology that seasonally transforms alongside the natural surroundings.
