The design is a studio project from Master of Architecture. The project is an approach to attenuate the problem of groundwater depletion in Marfa, Texas due to massive farming and oil drilling and the building demonstrate as an example with how to resolve it. The future of desert climate conditions can be reversed with bio-climatic approach and critical design thinking. >>>

The 640 residential unit building complex is comprised of a singular universal block, interconnected on two levels. It thereby suggests a permeable, notional, perimeter block. Each block is connected to the other as a bridge, which also produces a roof terrace on the free, upper surface of the block below. These terraces are for the leisure use of the residents. On the top-level, the roof terraces have gallery-type rooms above the lift cores with varying functions – a library, a gym, a nursery, a boiler room and a gallery. >>>