Notebook » FIBONACCI AND A WEDGE OF CHEESE
It’s always good to keep checking on your ideas about where and how you live. We live in a very standard New Zealand house built in 1967. The house is sited on an interesting trapezoid shaped section and borders on to a planted bank which is the property of Nelson City Council.
Every now and then I have thoughts about if we had tons of money, what would I build here. Over the years I’ve had different ideas of studios in the garden, little buildings dotted all over the site (Barbara Hepworth’s sculptural garden in St Ives, Cornwall was a major inspiration for me just before we left the UK to return home to NZ about 11 years ago) and many numerous other sketch ideas that are recorded somewhere.
Anyway, here is the latest idea. Still the garden theme but pull in a bit of Fibonacci, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, 55, ………etc and a wedge of cheese. The wedge of cheese is there practically to have ‘small interesting’ windows to the south east to keep the heat loss down. Recently I’ve been thinking about blending buildings into their context which can sometimes make the buildings act in an apologetic manner. This yellow cheese wedge building does the opposite and celebrates it’s difference.
It even manages to introduce some cloudy shaped windows.
All theoretical at the present but raring to go.
Having a site that is definitely under developed as far as the imagination is concerned is great. The site continually stimulates new ideas. The many different options will one day turn into something that the site itself has informed and some thing the site itself desires.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:17 am
Building with cheese should be a breeze
Swiss would be holistic
Feta even better
Mozzarella may cut new whey