WBA was commissioned to Master Plan a spectacular 15-acre mini-JTNP-like-boulder-site for site specific STR’s in Yucca Valley. After walking the periphery and interiority of site we discovered that two distinct architectures would likely be necessary – ‘Caves and Nests’. The site had been wildcatted in the 70’s, i.e. building pads were likely illegally ‘put in’ with road access deftly ‘cut in’ by an expert wildcatter such that you can barely find them now. One site that felt like a ‘Temple Nest’ was south-facing below a boulder-studded-slope with distant 270-degree-views from the San Bernardino Mountains (far-west) to the JTNP Pinto Mountains (far-east) with mini-JTNP-like-boulders everywhere and most proximately north at a long-dam-like-edge fostering the wildflower meadow ‘nest’ in which we were seated. And above to the southeast a saddle-ridge Rock Temple with a knurly Pine. Our design approach was to recognize both the safe-unseen-nest-like qualities and calm (less windy) Zen-temple-quietness ‘here’ and to perhaps simply float a parasol-like roof above meadow-bowl floor. This naturally evolved into a reciprocal floating double-curved-amphitheater-like floor with 360 views in all directions, to the much-needed south winter sun, and then tipped down toward north entry and toward the most-JTNP-like-boulder pile on the entire site. On this project page is a single bifurcated volume – more compact less impactful. See process tab for another scheme and more specifics about construction approach common to both schemes.