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Home > Articles > Lookout Point > Rock Castles: Part One - by Ed Newton
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Very few of us have the opportunity to build the futuristic house of our dreams on a tract of land that is primarily a large rock formation. However, these architectural concepts were done to accommodate such a site. The client owned twenty acres of land next to the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Southern California, and wanted a dwelling complex that either complemented the terrain or looked like an alien invasion. I’ll post some of the "alien" ideas here, and save the "architectural outcrops" for later publication.
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In this first version (1, 2 and 3 above), the large studio "rotunda" (to be constructed on the excavated pad which covered the entire crest of the "rock hill") is linked with the living quarters by an enclosed tunnel. Access to the "saucer" (a two-story primary house) was to be by the "umbilical cord" (covered walkway) from the "mother-ship" (studio-rotunda).
In a later version (4 and 5 below), the underground studio was to be contained beneath the pad, with recreational usage reserved for the "roof" area. A monorail system accessed the main house through a special overhead "guillotine door". This 4-story house overlooked a dome-covered pool which nestled within a natural cavity in the rock formations.
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