juniper

Location: Joshua Tree, CA

Year: 2023-2024

Vegetative Community: Desert scrub

JUNIPER is great for gin and healthy habitats. A collaboration with Architect Cory Walker of Walks Studio, this project is a landscape experience immersed in the ecology of the desert. Here we lean heavily on desert native plants to captivate the mind, body, and spirit(s).

A voice from the Cactus Wren

Design can only begin with a thorough understanding of the site. Through careful analysis and inventory, and listening to the site, can we can begin putting pen to paper. With JUNIPER, we choreographed the experience so that the landscape beyond can take center stage. Trees frame views to the Friendly Mountains. The pool directs sight lines to the landscape beyond, while the fireplace frames replenished ecological habitat.

Chilopsis linearis ‘Hope’, Prosopis glandulosa ‘Maverick’, Psorothamnus spinosus, Washingtonia filifera, Atriplex canescens, Encelia farinosa, Ericamera nauseosa, Eriogonum fasciculatum, Perigoma arborea, Salvia apiana, Aristida purpurea, Sporobolus airoides, Baileya multiradiata, Epilobium canum, Sphaeralcea ambigua, Cylindropuntia echinocarpa, Fouquieria splendens, Yucca schidigera

In collaboration with Walks Studio (architect)