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A single-storey desert modern home at blue hour: white stucco, walls of lit glass and a deep cantilevered porch, reflected in a long pool, with saguaros and a mountain ridge behind.
ProjectCustom homes SiteScottsdale & the high desert Start a home (a sample button: it asks Kentra for a quote on a site like this)

Fig. 01 Blue hour

Desert modern homes, drawn for their site and built by one team.

Fig. 02 Lights on, drawn

Glass to the view, stucco to the sun, and a porch deep enough to live under.

Caliche: custom homes in Scottsdale and the high desert

A board-formed concrete fireplace wall in late sun, logs stacked in its opening.
Board-formed concreteA-001

A-001 The studio

We build for the light, the land and the long view.

  1. 01

    Site first

    Every plan starts with a walk of the lot: the sun, the views, the washes and the neighbors.

  2. 02

    One team

    Design and construction under one roof, from the first sketch to the day you get the keys.

  3. 03

    Made for the desert

    Deep overhangs, thick walls and materials chosen to weather the heat with grace.

A-100 Drawings

Drawn for the site.

Three sheets from a sample set: where the house sits, what it is made of, and how it keeps the light.

  1. Blue hour over the site: a ridge of desert mountains, a lone mesquite tree and the edge of the porch roof.

    A-101 Site

    Site first.

    Every plan starts with a walk of the lot: the sun, the views, the washes and the neighbors. The house sits low, under the ridge, and the old mesquite stays.

  2. Close detail: hand-troweled white stucco, a blackened steel window frame and an agave in a weathered steel planter, in late sun.

    A-301 Detail

    Stucco & steel.

    Hand-troweled plaster in the color of the desert floor, blackened steel for windows and doors, and planters left to weather to a soft rust.

  3. Inside: oak floors in a band of sun, a concrete fireplace and tall black steel doors folded open to a small pool and the desert hills.

    A-501 Light

    Light, kept.

    Tall openings that frame the hills, and deep overhangs that keep the afternoon sun off the glass.

A-600 Build & live

Built, then lived in.

The same team that drew the house raises it, and hands you the keys to a home made for the desert, by day and by night.

A house going up at sunrise: a blackened steel frame and raw timber walls on a wood deck, desert mountains and saguaros behind it, steel beams waiting on the sand.

A-601 Build

Built by
one team.

Steel and timber raised on site by the same team that drew them, with a walk-through with you at every stage.

The kitchen in morning sun: a long travertine and oak island on a polished concrete floor, black steel doors open to saguaros and the hills.
The courtyard at night under the stars: a long fire trough burning beside a curved stucco wall, a lit tree and a white stucco wing, the hills dark behind.

A-701 Live, by day

Live,
by day.

Travertine and oak in a band of morning sun, and the desert right outside the glass.

A-702 Live, by night

Live,
by night.

A fire in the courtyard, the walls still warm from the day, and the hills going dark behind them.

A-000 Your home

Start a home.

Tell us about the lot, the view and the way you live. We will walk the site with you before anyone draws a line.

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