The main premise of the project is the assumption that people will increasingly use self-driving vehicles for the transport of goods and people. Due to this shift it is imagined that motels and truck service stations will become obsolete, as vehicles will allow 24 hour transportation, without the need for rest stops for drivers. Under this automation, a future 24 hour non-stop world will emerge where there is no longer a need to create a separation between work that occurs at night or during the day.

Within this context the proposal presents a new model town and truck stop to help heal those experiencing the distorted effects of living and working in such an environment. To do this the new model town presents a series of performative architectures designed to make temporal events in the landscape more present for those that experience them. These events include the phases of the moon, the extreme temperature range seen in the desert, the formation of dew, the humming of the dunes and the rise and fall of the Sun. The architectonic language of the project exits as a hybrid between the vernacular of desert dwellings and machines for telling the time, such as the hourglass, all of which are triggered by different climatic and stellar occurrences.