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Camp Paint Rock is a 110,000-acre private ranch in north-central Wyoming, replete with steep canyons, tall mesas, rushing streams. The camp is build for teen-agers from inner-city Los Angeles. There are 16 buildings in all–clustered around the mouth of a canyon— including boys’ and girls’ cabins, a dining hall, director’s house, counselors’ lodge and stable.

Paint Rock is design seeks to harness the dramatic scale, power and beauty of the Western landscape. Building forms echo the geology and natural forms of the landscape. The roof of the dining hall, for example, is partly inspired by geologic fault lines; the fissures create openings for views up the canyon walls and allow in natural light.

The camp is wonderful for relax, having fun, stargazing due to the fact that has a lot of decks, lookouts and sliding barnlike doors open these light, primitive structures to the skies and breathtaking views. The buildings, with their metal roofs, appear as glinting shards in the bright western sun. Together, they create a kind of neatly fractured community, where each building stands independently but connects through a series of pathways and bridges, thus reinforcing through design the camp philosophy of self-reliance and leadership within an interdependent community.

The camp is established by Frank Lloyd Wright at Ocotillo, successfully capturing the sense of those first moments of settlement and a tentative occupation of the land. Location: Hyattville, United States.