The Line Hotel
WBA was commissioned to design autonomous STR’s with common site amenities on two distinctly different sites in Yucca Valley. For the Yucca Mesa Site, we discovered walking the top northern property ‘line’ afforded an ideal south-facing Mojave Desert viewshed that could also plug-in most economically into a road / utilities extension while preserving 96% of this desert site for the Yucca Valley community – (see ‘Process’ tab for Master Plan details). The desert is subtle and one’s experience of it can change by moving up or down by inches. Also, it can change most noticeably when ‘walking a reference line’ (or datum), which is exactly what inspired this simple but experientially strong idea for either zero-lot-line STR’s (equivalent to the RL-5 zoning density allowed) or a Line Hotel within and under one roof line. Local Integra ‘post-tensioned-insulated-masonry walls’ and / or shade fins perpendicular to the ‘line’ support either wood or concrete floor / roof decks including a double-story bridge across main wash and single-story bridges between / across eastern ridges / wash valleys. Floating across the main wash and engaging the waters / wildflowers when they come and the wildlife / breezes that follow the desert washes is where the common public amenities congregate exactly in the middle of the 1800’-0” long line. Due to the sensitivity of our Design Proposal relative to the YV Community and Desert Site – the Town may consider re-zoning.
The Line Hotel
WBA was commissioned to design autonomous STR’s with common site amenities on two distinctly different sites in Yucca Valley. For the Yucca Mesa Site, we discovered walking the top northern property ‘line’ afforded an ideal south-facing Mojave Desert viewshed that could also plug-in most economically into a road / utilities extension while preserving 96% of this desert site for the Yucca Valley community – (see ‘Process’ tab for Master Plan details). The desert is subtle and one’s experience of it can change by moving up or down by inches. Also, it can change most noticeably when ‘walking a reference line’ (or datum), which is exactly what inspired this simple but experientially strong idea for either zero-lot-line STR’s (equivalent to the RL-5 zoning density allowed) or a Line Hotel within and under one roof line. Local Integra ‘post-tensioned-insulated-masonry walls’ and / or shade fins perpendicular to the ‘line’ support either wood or concrete floor / roof decks including a double-story bridge across main wash and single-story bridges between / across eastern ridges / wash valleys. Floating across the main wash and engaging the waters / wildflowers when they come and the wildlife / breezes that follow the desert washes is where the common public amenities congregate exactly in the middle of the 1800’-0” long line. Due to the sensitivity of our Design Proposal relative to the YV Community and Desert Site – the Town may consider re-zoning.
The Line Hotel
WBA was commissioned to design autonomous STR’s with common site amenities on two distinctly different sites in Yucca Valley, California each offering unique environmental attributes and challenges. The 108.18-acre Yucca Mesa Site is located north of HWY 62 in the northeastern-most corner of YV bordering Joshua Tree, CA near the Partlett Mountains. When walking the site from lowest southeastern corner out of its lower main wash oxbow tributaries upwards to northwest it became apparent; that the views south and southeast towards the Little San Bernardino and Pinto Mountains of Joshua Tree National Park; changed dramatically within the last 50’-0” or so of the north property line. We also observed that said ‘line’ was slated to receive a paved road extension from Yucca Mesa Road with all requisite Town utilities. As we walked the ‘line’ from northwestern corner, near an upper wash tributary, due east downwards into and across the main wash and then up and over multiple ridges and wash valleys that all zero-lot-line STR’s and common site amenities could occur under a single roof line and ‘plug-in’ most economically into road / utilities while preserving 96% of the untouched Yucca Mesa Site and its quintessentially south-facing Mojave Desert viewshed replete with both Mount San Jacinto and San Gorgonio to the southwest and west.
