Lake Flato Architects creates rammed-earth ranch house in Marfa

American architecture studio Lake Flato has created a ranch house from rammed earth in the desert grasslands of Texas named Marfa Ranch.
Located in Marfa, a small art and ranching community between the Chihuahuan Desert and the Davis Mountains, the building was inspired by the early architecture of the region with rooms arranged around a courtyard.
The house was designed to blend in with the landscape with rammed earth walls and a low-lying form
"The design leans into an early regional paradigm