The headland at Big Sur is solid granite under a metre of soil. We anchored the house with twelve steel piles, each drilled eight metres into the rock.
The wind can reach 160 km/h. The west façade is thick concrete; the glass faces south and east, protected by the house itself.
Materials arrived by barge and were lifted by crane. It took two winters. It will stand for two centuries.
Drawing the light before the walls
One slab of marble