The PrairieFire Nevada Clubhouse is a project that is truly unique to Nevada. Intended to be constructed in the coming years on the newly refurbished PrairieFire Nevada firearms training facility, which covers a 550 acres, this Clubhouse will be the first interaction that the incoming public and current members will have on the site. When it came to locating the project on the site, we were given very tight constraints, as the building would need to be located between existing FEMA flood paths and a cliff edge while still being able to provide enough parking to satisfy all the requirements held by Nye County. In addition to this, the design of the building needed to either account for bridging a large differential between the levels of the existing grading or force parking close to the cliff edge. With the intent of minimizing grading and large-scale modifications to the site as much as possible, our design considered the existing grading differentials and the cliff edge and split the layouts of the Clubhouse program into areas with aligned uses so that we could fully harness the grades. This allows us to provide a two-level structure that appears to be a single level upon approach. Throughout the design process, and during multiple site visits, we were also inspired by the beauty of the site and the area of Nevada in which it exists. The impressive earthen colors and stratification inherit in the surrounding landscape provided the aesthetic push to opt for rammed earth mass walls. This allowed us to not only capture the essence of the landscape as a physical design element, but also provides the opportunity to utilize these mass walls as a method of regulating indoor temperatures. Additionally, there are multiple mines nearby which were used to mine copper, a metal that has a long history in Nevada. Taking the inspiration of the vertical striations found in the cliff face, and enhanced in our digital topographic models, we chose to utilize copper panels with custom break profiles as the primary façade element in order to tie both the historical significance and materiality together with the raw beauty of the surrounding earth. With the use of the rammed earth walls that directly incorporate the hues of the surrounding earth and the copper façade that will quickly patina into deep desert tones, the building looks as though it has erupted from the site and then settled in to become part of the landscape.