If you want to check it out for yourself (there’s no address, just coordinates-33★0’59.6″N 116☃3’57.5″W), Mirage will run from now until October 31. Though, some people are citing that birds may run straight into the houses facade, others are currently getting their Instagram snaps ablaze. framing and distorting its surroundings, the reflective installation changes throughout the day, creating a range of unique experiences. Sited at the juncture where the San Jacinto mountain range opens up to the Coachella valley, Aitken’s installation acts as a life-size kaleidoscope, reflecting the vast, arid landscape. The structure was created as part of Desert X, an outdoor art exhibition comprised of over 16 artworks that have been installed across the arid landscape of the Coachella Valley.Combined with the traditional ranches in the American west, the style was. When it comes to visiting this house, everything counts. The house reflects surroundings and offers a rather confusing disguise. Mirage is a ranch-style suburban American house.
Mirage, aptly named in the Valley’s arid desert climate, reflects the craggy, windswept topography around it and the nearby San Jacinto Mountains. Titled Mirage, the house distills the repetitious suburban home into the essence of its lines, reflecting the surrounding mountainous desert. Mirage house was created as installation for the Desert X art festival, for which 16 artworks have been installed across the Coachella Valley.
#Desert x mirage house series
Right now, California-based artist Doug Aitken’s “ Mirage”-a low, mirror-clad house inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright’s residences-is in the spotlight, along with a host of other site-specific installations in a series dubbed Desert X. Desert X installation view of Doug Aitken, ‘Mirage’, 2017. Doug Aitken’s “ Mirage”, Photo by Lance Gerber/DesignboomĬompared (currently) to Marfa’s Prada Store in Texas, visitors of Coachella Valley are in awe of this Frank Lloyd-inspired installation. The dwelling modelled on the classic American ranch house comes clad inside and out with mirrored surfaces to create the sensation of appearing and disappearing into its arid surrounds.