Project Description
WATER BARN CAVE CREEK, AZ Carved into a slope in rural Cave Creek where livestock barns are the norm sits a small utility building for the purpose of enclosing a large water tank. The water well serving the adjacent residence was no longer capable of maintaining an adequate supply of water as the level of the water table was falling rapidly. We were asked to create a small low-maintenance building which would enclose a 2,500 gallon water tank, pump equipment and water treatment facilities including a storeroom. The concept was to set the building into the slope, design a roof that both resembles wings of Harris hawks, large birds indigenous to the area while encouraging air flow for natural cooling and appeared to have been in place for many years. The result is an acid-washed all steel building of 380 square feet with sliding barn doors, adequate natural ventilation and a soaring roof.