Daniel Joseph Chenin uses passive building strategies for stone-clad Nevada house

Local studio Daniel Joseph Chenin has placed a sprawling stone residence around an 1850s fort-inspired rotunda outside of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Daniel Joseph Chenin settled the 7,800-square foot (725-square-metre) house on an acre rock outcrop near government-protected land in Las Vegas Valley, looking out to Red Rock Canyon.
Daniel Joseph Chenin designed the house in the Las Vegas desert
Named Fort 137, "the building pays homage to the old fort structures from the early settlement days of Las Vega