VISION Issue 39 | Page 16

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,