Casa Caldera, Arizona

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DUST Custom Builds an Off-Grid Arizona Dwelling from Volcanic Rock

In Arizona’s San Rafael Valley, architectural alliance DUST has completed a dwelling designed in direct response to the region’s distinct history and context. Located 15 miles North of the border between the United States and Mexico, ‘Casa Caldera’ occupies a site formed by volcanic activity that resulted in a mineral and resource-rich land. ‘From native agricultural cultures, to nomadic hunter-gatherers, to conquistadors and missionaries, to pioneers, miners, cattle, and cowboys, to militia, migrants, and narcotraficantes., the San Rafael Valley in Southern Arizona is the quintessential landscape and folklore of the wild west’, says the design team.
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