The Montello Foundation’s Artist Residency Program provides a solitary retreat in the Nevada Desert to reflect on nature and create new works. The off-the-grid complex provides simultaneous immersion in, and protection from, the extreme desert landscape. The two structures, housing living quarters and a work studio, are made of cast in place concrete and corrugated siding; and are attached at the roof by a screened canopy that conceals solar panels and a water catchment system, and at the ground by a reclaimed timber deck.

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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » Montello Foundation
Program » Artist's Retreat
Type » New Construction
Location » Montello, Nevada
Budget » 300,000
Status » Unrealized
Year » 2011