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PRIVATDESIGN Below: the Pierre almost disappears into nature from some angles. Inside, bare rock extrudes into the openplan living space Th ese houses go beyond framing a landscape – they remove the building altogether Forty-Six
IMAGES©BENJAMINBENSCHNEIDER PRIVATDESIGN Left and below left: the Slaughterhouse (2009) in Maui, Hawaii, is a high-tech surf shack with walls made of compacted earth. Below right: opening the window at Chicken Point Cabin, Idaho (2002) world wide web of folks that seem to connect,’ he says. As a result, the architect uses the phrase ‘pragmatic regionalism’ to describe his approach, adding in the importance of Japanese architecture, ‘the Zen Buddhist philosophy behind the purity of the simple. As a kid I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, of course, and Alan Watts’ Th e Wisdom of Insecurity, they were all about the simple being complex. Classic Zen.’ Did he feel under pressure for his early works to arrive fully formed? ‘Th ere was very little architecture that really resonated with me, especially when I was younger,’ he recalls. ‘I was in architecture, and I knew there was something about it that I found fascinating but that really didn’t start to coalesce until I started seeing some of Carlo Scarpa’s work, and Pierre Chareau’s work – the references you can see clearly.’ Many of Kundig’s houses are characterised by their very visible gizmos and gadgets, all of which have a satisfyingly hefty, handcrafted feel. It’s the diff erence between the American defi nition of craft – which post-dates the industrial revolution – and the European one, which pre-dates it. Kundig’s craft comes from the hands of boilermakers and blast crews, of machine workshop obsessives who like turning fl ywheels, levers, cranks, pulleys, governors and gears into amped-up versions of everyday objects like door handles and window winders. For the kinetic elements of these houses aren’t simple fanlights or ventilation slots, but massive, oversized components that entirely shift one’s perception of space and place. Th ese houses go beyond framing a landscape – they remove the building altogether. ‘Th at’s a nice way of describing it,’ says Kundig, adding: ‘I’d rather be there than here,’ and pointing a fi nger to the rocky shores a few hundred yards from the spiky horizontal angularity of the Shadowboxx. Th is house, in Lopez Island, Washington, is a technological tour-de-force, a showcase Forty-Seven
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