Conceptually,
the house is both refuge and eyrie - a seagull bobbing on
a giant swell. Refuge - from the blustering and capricious
Bass Strait weather - it toes into the site; it has well protected
courtyards - sanctums. Eyrie - birds eyeing the cost. North,
South Westernport Bay and Phillip Island to the East. The
house carries vague evocations of a stranded hulk, a trawler
or tanker riding a monster wave. Its bedroom tail more snug,
intimate, battered down.
The anchor of the dynamic torque of the house is the vestibule.
The inner concentration of the long limestone wall gathered
in from the wider site to create a radiant fulcrum, celebrating
light meeting gravity, the interchange of family dwelling.
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