This home sits in the master planned community of Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona. This is considered the high Sonoran Desert. The house was designed to keep the sun out of the house during the summer and flood the house with the warm winter sun during the cooler months of the year. We used an indigenous Arizona stone called Halapai found in the Ashfork area of AZ for the exterior and fireplaces. The design was inspired by the Anasazi's an indigenous native people known for their curvilinear dwellings.