The Folly cabin by Cohesion Studio offers the perfect off grid experience under the stars

The Joshua Tree Folly reflects the world’s most unique landscape. This piece of architecture blends indoor-outdoor living with an emphasis on entertaining discerning travelers enveloped in an innovative minimalistic design. Designed and built by architect + designer Malek Alqadi, who has created this customized off grid experience.  – text by the author

Upon arrival, Folly sets the tone to disconnect from the norm, the expected, and provokes you to connect with the surroundings.

Folly is a peculiar prototype built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to its surroundings through an architectural medium. It derives from a need to expand my thesis position on architecture; which explores Cohesion as the integration of contextual and pragmatic relevancy within different environments.

Folly addressed these multi-layered issues through its components and the method of adaptive reuse and its adherence to contextual, environmental, and social paradigms. Upon arrival, Folly sets the tone to disconnect from the norm, the expected, and provokes you to connect with the surroundings. I perceived it as a design paradigm, a small space with a big experience, modern and innovative while grounded within its environment.

Utilizing architecture as a medium, Folly provides moments in which guests can feel disconnected and experience a creative escape to engage with fellow explorers or simply relax with alone time.

A stargazing bedroom with no ceiling, showers with exposed and expansive views and an energy producing solar tree is the exploitation of nature through a respectful approach. Utilizing today’s Technology allows the guests to monitor energy consumption and solar production, controlled secured entry, lighting settings, solar powered skylights and set cooling and heating temperatures to the space.

This interactivity, establishes a reference to what off-grid living is like through automated creature comforts that ‘break the ice’ to an off-grid lifestyle without compromising the surrounding environment or guest expectations.

Folly, creates moments and experiences that provide guests and members with the feeling they so desire – of solitude, of being away from it all, but yet a sense of belonging.

 Folly is a prototype that is currently expanding into Folly Farm in New York and Folly Mojave in Southern California. Both off-grid destinations will allow for inclusive experiences such as work retreats, social groups, or intimate events.

Utilizing architecture as a medium, this collection of work will provide moments in which guests can feel disconnected and experience a creative escape to engage with fellow explorers or simply relax with alone time.

Facts & Credits
Project title   Folly
Design Cohesion Studio
Type  Off-grid Hotel
Location  Joshua Tree, California
Photography  SAM FROST PHOTOGRAPHY

You can rent the cabin here!