Students at The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin West have erected small sleeping shelters on the school's Arizona desert property in for decades, hearkening back to the early days of the school, when young architects resided in tents as they built the permanent building. Chilean architect Jaime Inostroza just raised his own tiny shelter, and – in keeping with the famous architect's principles – it is meant to "respond to the landscape of the Sonora desert."

Inostroza named his shelter Atalaya, which means the crow's nest of a ship, wherein crew members can glimpse the horizon. In his design statement, Inostroza said he wanted to build a sleeping shelter that would let him "dwell within the horizon of the Alameda of the Palos Verdes." Atalaya is 12 feet tall, the same height as many of the surrounding trees.