What is the ‘big (IDEA)’ behind this project?
There was in this home to be the sense of arriving at a natural and built environment that was in complete contrast to the owner’s city home. We began with the idea of the spiral, an acknowledgment of the end of the journey to the beach. As the project developed we carefully considered how the building should be located and its relationship to the heavily tea-treed sand dunes, prevailing winds, possible points of entry and interior versus exterior topography. So what’s the big idea? The mathematician’s complex topological surfaces like the Klein bottle appealed to us. This held the promise of new form and spatial sequence, radically merging of the floor, wall and ceiling, inside and outside. The Klein bottle was the perfect fit to the constraints of the site. Once adopted, the shape of this building had something of a life of its own.
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