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concepts flop, the mind flutters Overlapping and echoing, phrases shift to geometric patterns, and all considerations are rearranged.
The house fans, folds, and shifts, causing shifting viewpoints of the singular appearance, with the outside view ever present. It becomes a canopy, a vantage point from which nature reveals itself. Structurally, the frame is an open reed-like bridging of hybrid members hidden within the glass window frames. Thus, the canopied roof seems to float on no appreciable support.
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These spaces are opened out, allowing senses to expand, as the interior and exterior merge. Things can be perceived all at once, and the inhabitant is both here and there, in a live and changing world. aterials are stained wood, stone and light, tree M branches, shadow patterns, water and foliage, metal and ice, and the like. These change, waver, grow, and decay, by night and day, through storms and sun, in all times and seasons. lear light flashes through the room, dissolving the C platforms on which the room itself is based.
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Shapes lose definition to become containers of light, where the outside and the inside tend to merge. 41
The double-sloped structure climbs a hill, overlooking wooded Echo Lake.
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Translucent and semi-transparent, the stepped crystalline structure completes itself visually in the reflecting pool. Its wholeness is comprised of actual and reflected imagery, and the form is completed in the viewers own mind. 98
Thus, the seeming solidity of the structure is in great part illusory.
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Cedar siding, standing seam metal roofing for low slopes, and its large openings facing the lake are spanned with laminated wood girders.
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Inside and outside space and form merge and come simultaneously into awareness. he qualities of the landscape and this place play out as if on T a screen, while the inhabitant always remains at the center. Natural processes in the landscape are revealed, entropic and vital, on the dissolving boundaries between things, as time collapses into the continual present moment. outside of usual time and usual space
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Dream-like or real, these spaces twist and turn into light. They resolve themselves, or not. It is a contest involving the viewer and what is seen. spinning around, spinning right, climbing a hill, the sky half dark, half spiral-colored swirling light. 174
Step down into a room that is configured for both the arousal and the weakening of fear. A room that engenders reliance and determination. Footstep-like sounds, clatter down, from the distant echoing corridor and chamber-like place. 175