Boulder House

designing the casa piedra, taller gabriela carrillo overlays a simple grid atop the rocky terrain to create complex intersections.

The family has invited gawkers in. The first thing the kids want to do is climb the walls.

Homes built from natural materials are an ancient concept gaining popularity again all over the world, and they come in many shapes and sizes. Some small, some large, some quaint, and still more and on

Designing a home for his young family, architect Christian Wassmann finds a rock is no hard place

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Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The 4,380-square-foot Boulder House, often referred as "America's Most Original Home," was built in 1980 by Sunnie and Bill Empie, who wanted to trade in their life in the cloudy Puget Sound area of Washington for the dry heat of Arizona's upper Sonoran Desert. It is listed for sale for $4.2 million and available for tours and events.

Creative cottage situated in Sandefjord, Norway, designed by Lund Hagem Arkitekter.

Flight of stone steps in the Boulder House, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The house, built in and around a hill of granite boulders, was designed by the architect, Charles F. Johnson of Santa Fe..

Pilar Acevedo and Enrique Saulle, a New York City couple looking for a change, built a home in a remote part of Uruguay.