Tapped by a creative family to hep design a house in stark terrain, the architecture and design firm Schiller Projects looks to the land Sonny and Rives Granade with their kids at the family’s Desert house, designed by Schiller Projects and realized with Dion+Cole. To build a home at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains is to negotiate a paradox: the natural beauty demands attention while the wind and unforgiving California sun require refuge. For psychotherapist Sonny Granade and her husband, the artist Rives Granade, this tension became the driving force in shaping their family retreat just outside of Palm Springs . Completed in 2024, the house sits at the edge of a mature olive grove and alongside federally protected terrain, ensuring their views will never be interrupted by anything but wildlife. Sonny, whose father is the celebrated American artist Ed Ruscha , grew up shuttling between Los Angeles and the high desert, where her parents each kept cabins.…