The client, heir to a trucking fortune, was attracted to the Beach by the Cayce material, and formed Aquarian Age Real Estate. He purchased one of the very best sites in the area, a peninsula on the Lynnhaven River. Unfortunately, the site had a small house on it, built decades before by a prominent regional architect for himself. This building was a very unhappy confusion of plainness, visual incompetence and rather fine materials. Essentially all had to be saved in some way and the square footage more than doubled. The first design was within the constraints of keeping things on one floor. You can see the explicit ambiguities of inside and outside. In this case, the still areas used Algonquian rather than Japanese forms as the site was a well known Indian camp. Fortunately, we were able to sell a two-story solution, which afforded amplification of the ambiguities and a strengthening of the linear flows. A couple years later, we were able to come back and add on a new second-floor master bedroom suite. So in effect, we began with imputed Native American flows, superimposed the flows the original architect would have used (if he were so aware) and imposed our own series of flows. And then later were able to come back and layer over it all. It’s a pretty complex system, but fairly easy to read because the components are so primitive: everything is simply a direction. The photos show some horrid taste in decorating; just ignore that as it is not important.
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