Desert H House - Marana, Arizona

Desert H House embraces mountain views and the area’s warm climate, encouraging indoor-outdoor living.  The house is a study of taking a small residence and creating outdoor rooms that become extensions of both the surrounding desert and the interior spaces.  The outdoor spaces add to the livable square footage of the house and connect the house to the landscape and the desert lifestyle.

Cloud Catcher Residence - The Residences at Ritz Carlton

The Cloud Catcher residence is a unique 5,000 s.f. custom designed home in Marana, Arizona, at the base of the Tortolita Mountains. The house sits softly into its .85 acre site with wonderful mountain and city views. The house is a site specific design sculpted to its own unique location and its own individual spirit of place. The design takes full advantage of the site’s attributes and solar orientation, responding to lower distant city views towards the south as well as beautiful views upward into the mountains towards the north. The roof-line of the house responds to both views and the solar path. Toward the north, the roof rises to allow views into the mountains and sky above, as well as capture northern light. The deep cantilevered roof toward the south protects the glass from direct sunlight throughout the summer. Private and public functions are separated by an indigenous stone wall that starts at the guest parking area and extends up and through the house, creating an entry sequence and terminating into the hillside, anchoring the house into its landscape. The house embraces the desert lifestyle taking advantage of the warm climate and the opportunity for indoor-outdoor living and connectivity with the desert. Retracting doors along the north can fully open letting the terrace and the interior of the house flow together, breaking the conventional opaque boundary between interior and exterior. Cloud Catcher draws from the traditional ranch house of the southwest. Indigenous stone, adobe masonry walls, Douglas fir wood detailing and rusted patina roof are sculpted into a timeless modern expression.

Silvertree Residence – Tucson, AZ

The Silvertree residence is a study in how an existing, small, dated, closed-in and inwardly focused residence can be revived into an inspiring modern space that interacts with the outdoors.

2008 Merit Award from AIA Southern Arizona

2008 Home of the year award in remodel category from AIA Southern Arizona and Tucson Lifestyle Home & Garden Magazine

Dove Mountain Canyon Pass – Marana, Arizona

Acted as lead design architect on multiple residences as a consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

Saguaro Ranch – Marana, Arizona

Acted as lead design architect on multiple residences as a consultant for Seaver Franks Architects

Pima Canyon Estates – Tucson, Arizona

Acted as lead design architect on residences as a consultant for Seaver Franks Architects, including the award winning Desert Garden and Ramada at the heart of the development.

2003 American Institute of Steel I.D.E.A.S. merit award (Innovative Design and Excellence In Steel)

Honey Bee Ridge Estates Residence, Oro Valley, Arizona

Converging perspective lines travel through house and culminate to spectacular sweeping views of Tucson’s Catalina Mountains…. Stay tuned for photo shoot of this house this summer

Sky Court Residence

The heart of the house opens and allows the exterior courtyards to transect completely through the house. Large retractable sliders retract on both sides of the great room blurring the line between interior and exterior, and connecting the house to mountain views above to the north and 180 degrees city views below to the south Completion date Summer 2020

Wild Burro Ranch

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City Park Food Hall Tucson, Arizona

Conceptuals for 13,500 s.f. Foodhall Concept intended to fill the entire first floor of City Park Mixed Use in Downtown Tucson.  Food Hall Interiors would morph with the flanking exterior urban parks to the east and to the west by the way of exterior overhead doors that extend the entire length of both east and west facades.  Foodhall interiors expose the structural bones and mechanical systems of the building. Sculptural back lit tensile fabric column capitals and serpentine metal coil drapes weave through out space unifying common areas and used for customized projected lighting effects and signage for individual vendors. First floor of the first level of City Park was designed for the entire first level to be showcased to Congress Street with 18′ tall glass windows offering unfettered views into and out of the space.

North Restaurant – Tucson & Scottsdale, Arizona

Lead Design Architect, as consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

Montana Avenue Restaurant – Tucson, Arizona

Lead Design Architect, as consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

Bloom Restaurant – Scottsdale, Arizona & Broomfield, Colorado

Lead Designer and Project Architect as consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

Metro Grill Park Place – Tucson, Arizona

Lead Designer and Project Architect as consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

City Park Mixed Use

Secrest Architecture LLC – Design Architect

SBBL Architects -Architect of Record

40 E. Congress – City Park is a mixed-use transit-oriented development, located in the heart of downtown Tucson.  It is a project that incorporates the historic Indian Trading post to the east, and 20 E. Congress to the west. Large urban parks/courtyards connect the three buildings.  The lower floor of 40 E. Congress, which is planned for a food hall opens almost entirely to these patios with the use of large glass overhead doors, that allow the exterior spaces to flow and morph into the interior spaces. The upper floors are offices and home to the new North American headquarters for Hexagon Mining, an international mining tech company.  The fifth-floor shares space with Hexagon Mining’s auditorium and Experience Center and available flex space for event type uses including a 2,600 s.f. sky deck that has sweeping views of the Catalina mountains and downtown Tucson. The City Park was designed as a beacon of activity.  The north façade was designed to be as transparent as possible to showcase the excitement of the lower floor’s planned food hall and entertainment/bar areas with Congress Street. The material palette and color scheme was kept minimal and spare, concrete, glass and metal panels.  The palette was intended to not compete with the excitement of the planned interior spaces on the lower floors, exterior signage and other amenities along Congress Street.  The colors and materials where also selected to bridge the 3 buildings that make up this development.  Each building has its own character yet complements each other tying the whole development together.

Design Architect – City Park Mixed Use Tucson 2018 See more at www.facebook.com/SecrestArchitectureLLC

Hexagon Mining - North American International Headquarters

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Hexagon Mining Auditorium and Experience Center

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Rural Metro Fire Station – Tucson, Arizona

Lead Design Architect as consultant for Seaver Franks Architects.

Karp Heurlin Weiss Law Offices – Tucson, Arizona

Lead Design Architect as employee of Gromatzky Dupree and Associates.

America Online Offices – Broadway & Rosemont, Tucson, Arizona

Lead Design Architect as employee of Gromatzky Dupree and Associates.

SensoryCLUB plaza Tucson, Arizona

Coming soon new entertainment and support center for special needs children. See more at www.facebook.com/SecrestArchitectureLLC

Broadway Scott - Mixed Use

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Uptown - Mixed Use, Tucson Arizona

Conceptual images for reinventing the existing Foothills Mall into Uptown – a new exciting modern urban village concept offering food, entertainment, retail, office, hospitality and residential. Uptown would create a major destination and hub of activity located on the northwest side of Tucson, Arizona

Indian Trading Post Tucson, Arizona

The Indian Trading post is a renovation of an historic building originally built in 1897 in the heart of downtown Tucson.  This building was home to The Indian Trading post during the mid century era. Design concept is intended to open up the ground level to Congress Street using original historic structural lintels, increasing exposure to Congress Street and uncovering original historic details that had been covered up over the years with a series of remodels. The new concept will respect the historic nature of the building while breathing new life into it and connecting it with present day.  The new concept is designed to be used as a food and entertainment type use. It will  open to outdoor spaces to the west, sharing the neighboring courtyard of the City Park Mixed use project.