Life on the Edge

Located approximately in the middle of today's photo is a two thousand square foot house, an office, a toilet block, a sculpture studio, a 30 foot Bedford bus, two shipping containers and three water tanks. Having trouble finding them? This is because a very important design consideration at Windgrove is to build so that no one walking along or surfing at Roaring Beach will see any structures on the landscape. This isn't because I want privacy; rather, I feel that the uniqueness of Roaring Beach is that it is still a fairly wild landscape and that exposing any architecture, no matter how beautiful, would detract from this wild quality. By tucking the buildings at Windgrove into a grove of silver peppermint trees, I had to sacrifice the grand sweeping view, but over the years I have begun to appreciate the importance of viewing landscape through the "little windows" created by gaps in trees, etc.. It also gets me out of the house to check out the surf; a modicom of exercise that will always benefit one's physical and mental well being. Tomorrow will be a photo of the Windgrove buildings' exposed backside.