my grandparents got this property in 1912 so it’s been a hundred and three years now and when i was 18 i was just a first year architecture student my dad gave me $500 and he said go build a bunk house in the woods and so this hillside was just the perfect place surrounded by trees and so i just came up here and did that
i mean, it’s kind of a dream come true it’s probably the best opportunity i ever had it was all about, and still is about being part of nature i wanted to do this little house and it was only 14 feet by 14 feet set it in the trees and just set the house down as though it were literally just part of the forest and had just grown there
it was a place to go to just sort of be in the woods and be sort of part of this beautiful natural environment that we have here you know, this place is all about looking out we’re here to, basically, be part of nature but also to observe nature and we have wonderful native plants: fir trees cedar trees, huckleberries
i just get back to sort of a perspective of humans are part of the natural world and that’s where it all begins and ends and it kind of helps me in everything that i do the house ended up on a hillside facing south looking across a body of water and later on in life i’d studied-working in asia and korea- the perfect place for a building is with a hill behind you on a slope, looking south across water
and i realised later that that’s what this place is doing and i didn’t plan it-i wish i had- but i think about it a lot