15: This house perches upon, and recedes into the rock face. A second floor rear door allows ac- cess onto the top of the rock slope.
16: Renowned NWT Architect Gino Pin’s clas- sic house makes full use of the rock elevation. He has designed many houses, each of which preserves and highlights the natural features of their sites.
17: A climb up is worth the secluded yard out back and the view out front.
Compared with the newer neighbourhoods shown in photos 13 and 17, most people would prefer the neigh- bourhood shown in photo 12 and this street, with Gino Pin’s house and other houses which merge into, rather than dominate, the landscape.
Aleta Fowler was trained in both architecture and planning and works in green community infrastructure as a policy advisor for the Department of Indian and Northern Development.
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