Program: Live/Work Artist Compound
Collaboration: Proposal developed with Chick Rabourn
Location: Marfa, Texas, USA
Collaboration: Proposal developed with Chick Rabourn
Location: Marfa, Texas, USA
ORDENAR RODEO HOUSE
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![Site Plan.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/314a00ea8428e2dcaf602df992a634f43334f13e2691717addebae61b854ec84/Site-2D.jpg)
MARFA RODEO HOUSE answers the project brief for a live/work residency space set on a quiet residential street in Marfa, TX. Using Marfa’s heritage of the rodeo and cattle structures as its basis for a light-weight and flexible program, the project proposes few thermal zones for living amidst raw spaces for working. Dirty typologies (the stable, the shed, the corral) become art-production spaces with open and adjustable plans while a brick hearth structure anchors communal programs - cooking, eating, and bathing. The American cowboy, often described via The Marlboro Man couldn’t be further from Marfa’s own past. A couple blocks from our site sits an old adobe house owned by descendants of a Buffalo Soldier, an all-Black cavalry who served on the western frontier. It is the summer of 2020. in the middle of a lockdown, but only months after Lil Nas X smashed country music stereotypes and only weeks after the death of George Floyd. A Compton Cowboys poster is folded up in my glove compartment. It is not my first rodeo.
![Artist Live-Work Space.1](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c997ae19ea5a5b0099060fc681e26f996ea4e5512a71b6c112b8950e58dcf33/3.jpg)
![Site Axonometric.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6167807e2eb8ab864a360ff69f5b559d6f6c79ae97cc1fe5d3b9d982c8449c8/marfa-Axon-1.jpg)
![Artist Live-Work Space.2](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2530a310c0442a3b3dc54c3f0776b0a0bc384b1d949e9f0b5697538371395d81/SCENE-02.jpeg)
![An outdoor water basin is transformed into an outdoor shower.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc086f65ea5c3ec36f95b001d79b87207dcffa807ed5d05b0f777d363569d725/Crown-Shower-01.gif)
![Plant life adjacent to water basin.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6031a5a4009865801fc1ef2ffb6cb7e801aa4cd3d5f97c7a6cff2a509992c81/A1.jpeg)
30.319560, -104.018189
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2020
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10YRS
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2020
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10YRS