The addition is secluded. Scarcely visible from the street. Hidden by the existing 1970’s house. From the backyard and from inside it’s dramatic. Enveloped by the 300 wide Rammed Earth wall, the intent of the addition was to augment interaction between the artist, her works, her family, the site.

Bamboo interacts with the house. Its density providing an artwork in itself, framed in a window, while the shadows playfully meander over it. We put that window in the centre of the long view. You see it as soon as you enter the house but only vaguely in the distance. On 2nd glance the central work is seen to be a window, framing the dramatic moving texture of a bamboo clump and a limestone sculpture offset to the left, maintaining the drama. This addition is designed around its artworks, and created to be an artwork in itself. The tactile rammed earth walls provide a warmth and light that only comes with natural materials. Natural trunk style posts articulate the junction between old and new, but as you walk in, the shear scale and height of this rammed earth wall and volume of this space is what dominates the senses.