This ambitious hybrid-program project incorporates our client’s passions; racing, music, and culinary arts; into a dual-winged transporting form that hovers above the Racetracks whilst surveying both sides of the ancient 125-mile-long Coachella Valley Oasis with ‘hyper-panoramic performance event spaces with dual private villas’ clear spanning between ‘landing runners’ which incorporate dual structural cores servicing all levels including a clear spanning amphitheater-cockpit-lounge-skyscape. Key project challenges included ensuring structural / acoustic integrity between hybrid programs / simultaneous events whilst maintaining expansive indoor / outdoor spaces particularly in relation to the sublime beauty of the desert and its highly desirable winter / shoulder seasons climate. The ‘concrete-plaster shell’ construction incorporates project’s silent climate control system as one integral heating / cooling unit that leverages the artisanal aquifer below this ancient lake valley with an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System (ATES) which is a cost-effective technology to reduce primary energy consumption. It can also be viscerally experienced by welling-up this ‘artisanal aquifer’ at the center of roundabout arrival / event space and along the north weeping wall of the native Palmerie (transplanted from proximate Palm canyons), to the cool towers, which collectively create multiple effective microclimates as well as memories of the teeming Oasis civilizations that were here in this place before us.