As a series of waypoints for touring musicians traveling between major music cities across the United States, this project links disparate sites into a cultural infrastructure. Sited in the no man’s land between the interstate highway and adjacent small towns, it creates a neutral field for interaction between traveling urbanites and rural residents. Within the compound, an ice house acts as a more fixed programmatic element to draw visitors from the nearby town, while lodging areas provide shelter to musicians who are just passing through. An outdoor performance space brings the two programs together, configured flexibly to host small shows as well as large festivals. The compound is anchored by a massive roof structure that gives visibility from the highway and projects an ambiguous monumentality with implicit vernacular resonances. The architecture is expressed in a new language that is neither urban nor rural, suspended between the purity of abstraction and the grit of reality.