Ski Ranch House Adapts Desert yet Modern in Arizona by The Ranch Mine

Date of Publishing: January 31, 2023

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Architecture Design of Ski Ranch House

Description About The Project

Ski Ranch House designed by The Ranch Mine that adapts perfectly the desert living yet still showcases the modern and luxurious living and brings the indoor outdoor connection for the owner.

In this house, the designer started the design with a simple yet powerful move of creating an unbroken walkway leading directly from the street, through the front courtyard, into and through the house, and down to the boat house. The walkway is board stamped concrete, a desert adaption of the classic beachfront boardwalk, and runs perpendicular to the lake. This compositional element emphasizes homeowners’ main priorities, waterskiing and paddle boarding, drawing them and visitors to the lake upon arrival. The first part of the program the walkway passes are the garages, splitting them into two.

On the other hand, the house conceived as a large roof sitting on stilts in a rhythmic pattern. Not unlike the grid of slalom buoys on the lake, provide seamless, covered indoor outdoor living. In fact, the livable space is just a mere 40% of the total square footage that is under roof.

Moreover, the final segment of the walkway takes down to the boat house on the lake. The boat house packs a lot into its 172 square feet, with a conditioned kitchen with a pass through bar for dining and its conditioned bunk room. The bunk room provides additional sleeping accommodations that double as a place to store the standup paddle boards, or SUPs, and a changing area. Under the roof is also a living area, outdoor shower, TV, waterskiing equipment storage, and the boat slip where the boat can be lifted out of the water.

The Architecture Design Project Information:

Project Name: Ski Ranch House
Location: Buckeye, Arizona, United States
Project Year: 2022
Designed by: The Ranch Mine

Ski Ranch House Adapts Desert yet Modern in Arizona by The Ranch Mine — Between the courtyard and the lake is the long, narrow Ski Ranch House, echoing the linearity of the lake while making the most of the views.

The Ski Ranch House Gallery:

Text by the Architects: Bordering the Gila River in central Arizona sits a waterski community created just before the Great Recession. Other than a few uninhabited boat houses, the recession caused the community to sit vacant for over 15 years after until a pioneering couple decided to build the first house in the development, an off the grid capable, Bauhaus inspired, desert adapted, modern yet approachable lake house made for indoor/ outdoor living.

Photo credit: Roehner + Ryan | Source: The Ranch Mine

For more information about this project; please contact the Architecture firm :
– Add: 4340 E Indian School Rd. Suite 21552, Phoenix, AZ 85018
– Tel: (602) 571-3016
– Email: info@theranchmine.com