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A precise design was left out, no formal analysis or program. No plan or threedimensional rendering aided the project. A common respect for materiality and technique by myself and the clients would generate the work. The design is interested in revealing causality; the progression of Earth’s physiography from historical geology to the agrarian and urban human landscapes of today. It was important for us to resolve why their home is where it is, how its domestic form has and will continue to evolve, and what measures can be reasonably achieved based on the assignment of the particular elements of the place within a formal scale of values. But most importantly, how it functions within the larger ecological matrix. What lends greater legibility to this philosophy was the participation in the creative process as the environmental assets are flushed out of obscurity. A collegial and deliberative approach to real materials and conditions progressed within a consequential and physically bound context. The granite and shale outcrop is the anchor, a diffused evergreen canopy the shelter. The pond through the living Hemlock and Pine columns draws the eye outward.
Stonework By The Pond
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