Casa Correcaminos

Project Overview

Set among the cardón on a hillside lot in Laguna Hills, with the Sea of Cortez below and the desert behind, Casa Correcaminos was designed to bring an extended family or a wedding party together under one deep roof. The great room runs straight through the house, its glass walls sliding away on both sides so that the pool court and the open desert become extensions of the living room, and for most of the year the room has no walls at all. Across the balconies, a celosía of perforated concrete block filters the hard desert sun into a pattern that travels over the floors through the day. The roadrunners that cross the drive each morning were on the property before the house, and gave it its name.

The bedrooms open onto patios of their own, and a stair climbs to the roof terrace, where the whales pass below from December to April. Rough stone walls and a steel door mark the entry; block walls and steel beams carry a cast concrete roof with solar on top. Built by Estudio Picacho with local craftsmen between April 2025 and January 2026.