Sesame: Minimalist Desert Dwelling
Christophe Benichou

Sesame: Minimalist Desert Dwelling

30 Aug 2019  •  News  •  By Allie Shiell

Sesame by Christopher Benichou is an imaginary sanctuary for dwelling in the desert. Positioned somewhere between ruin and contemporaneity, its simplicity in materials and well as function - bed, bathtub, sink and toilet - show how architecture reduced to the basics can create intrigue. 

Christophe Benichou

Solid and monolithic with one material only, walls left ajar act as windows, filtering light in a meditative, indirect way. Shadow, sand, light and sanctuary…..