Kaleb Bartlett

Between Earth and Stars is an immersive stargazing experience where architecture and landscape meet. Formed from Corten steel, timber, concrete, and organically grown salt crystals, the design settles into the desert terrain, framing the night sky. Along an organic pathway, six pauses offer moments to sit, lay, and take in the atmosphere, each inspired by the Seven Sisters’ celestial journey. The path leads to the 7th star. A shared space with stepped forms and a salt crystal ring. Through gentle movement, material expression, framed views, and human interaction, it creates quiet, meaningful moments linking earth, people, and the stars above.

This captures a moment of stillness beneath a framed sky, where the architecture opens to the stars and landscape beyond. The multi-use platform invites visitors to sit, recline, and stargaze, creating a shared space for reflection and connection between earth and cosmos.

Offering a peep into the vast landscape and night sky, framing an intimate moment of connection between people and place. From within the structure, the view opens gently to the horizon, inviting stargazing and reflection beneath the Milky Way.

Showing an organic, flowing pathway that gently guides visitors through the landscape. The architecture forms quiet pockets to pause, inviting people to sit, lay back, and take in the atmosphere, creating small moments to relax and stargaze beneath the night sky

This floor plan maps out the flow of the main structure, guiding visitors from entry to a series of immersive spatial experiences. Beginning with a defined arrival point, the plan opens into organic zones for gathering, resting, and stargazing. With fluid pathways, seating pockets, and a central viewing platform that anchors the space. Each numbered area represents a distinct moment within the journey, encouraging pause, reflection, and connection to the surrounding land and sky.

This section illustrates a journey shaped by the Seven Sisters story, where six key moments are placed along the walkway, each inspired by a part of their celestial journey. As visitors walk, pause, sit, or stargaze, these six stops echo the sisters’ movement, separation, and reconnection across the night sky, creating a poetic path that guides people toward the final gathering point.