A whole new setting (II)
Well as much as any heart would sing when faced with a cesspool. The designer said very interesting in making their extension and when he got back to his office he asked for architects drawing of the original cesspool. The designer had found precisely what he expected. It was deeply sunk into the ground on piles and the foundations of a building which measures some twenty-four feet by thirty-seven feet were there to be exploited. I completed a series of site drawings. I visualized the whole new setting of the old house. Certainly there was need for a new dining room in the old place. But apart from that there was nothing startling to be done. But that cesspool really switched me on as an architect.
The designer suggest eye a sweeping colonnade from the old house to the firm foundations of the cesspool. Marble walkway with a flat concrete roof running some 12 meters from the house to what the designer was now calling the new home. Colored creeper’s climbing the columns of the walkway and, in the new house, a completely private wing. This new house would have the new garage that the owner wanted. Next on it on the ground floor would be a study and a bar. And close by a new master bedroom with huge picture windows which would overlook the feeding area where the cluster day after day—especially in the early morning. There would be seclusion there, peace and quiet whilst any guest would stay in the old house where they could do their own thing.
