VISION 39 — HOUSE-MASTER
As the sun goes down and early in the morning when the
sun is almost horizontal, it really darts across the ceiling
and throughout the interiors. It’s a very linear building
– a pavilion style of design.
There is that whole task of balancing daylight and
comfort levels. You feature some fairly heroic pieces
of glass work.
It’s really a desire for strong connections with the
landscape you don’t get when you put a wall there.
Glass is a really important element in this building, both
below the beam in the way we connect to the landscape,
and above the beam where we connect to treetops, sky,
stars and the moon. You’d be a fool to not show off this
amazing landscape.
And yet to describe your work as an obvious response
is really an oversimplification.
A lot is done because tradition says we will orientate
our house perpendicular to the street. We will present
a presence or have a presence to the street. Whereas,
I guess, what we're doing is the other way around. It's
more about what the interior is looking at, rather than
what the house looks like. Obviously, we're on a large
property, so you don't see it from the street. The major
axis, the north, looks onto a grassed court. Then, on the
eastern end of the house, where the master bedroom is,