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“His best work is balletic –
all taut muscle and sinew.
Such work lightly grips
and springs from
the landscape.”
PETER HYATT, VISION
it's a beautiful white ash as focal-point into and from the
house. The western end is a sunset deck. It's logical,
but I guess, not automatically logical for everyone.
These are not so much houses of style than ideas. Or at
least the style is the result of ideas. Which are very, very
different. Can you explain why ideas rather than style
matters more to you?
To chase style is to become a slave. How much creativity
is involved in chasing a style? Those who just rubber-
stamp it, are slaves to that. The true creative process,
in my mind, is understanding breeze patterns, the sun’s
passage, key views – ones you've got to capture or,
conversely, what views you don't want. Allowing them
to ferment and take form, that kind of creativity. At the
same time there's pragmatic decision making in that
creative process.
Tell me how Viridian glazing helps you problem solve
your way through these types of projects?
This is something of a common system of double-glazing.
There’s Low-E coating on the internal skin, and a green
tinted glass on the exterior. It's something that, from
the exterior, looks green that in this particular case at
Lauriston makes a really strong connection back to the
eucalypts, grass and olive plantation. From the inside
there's softness to the light. That combination of glass