New Mexico

Speculative Design Completed 2020

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The Coyote Room is a 400sf outbuilding nestled in a sagebrush and piñon landscape, for whatever reason a landmark on the coyote footpath that wends into the nearby national forest.  Utilized as a two-car garage under prior ownership, the space is reimagined here to be more beneficial for the current inhabitants who own only one hardwearing vehicle.  The Room is at once a pool hall, a lodge lounge, a photographers studio, and a guest bunk.  In keeping with the tradition of rugged timelessness admired in so many New Mexican outposts, the finishes are modest, durable, and serene.  A bent steel sign in scrolling script hints at the reverence to both humble practicality and minimalistic polish in equal measure.

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