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Staehling Residence Mayne Island, BC. 2003 Battersby + Howat

. . . the act of building is not the work of restoring regional identity or unity, by recreating and coordinating its familiar signs: instead, construction is described as an agency of topography’s perpetual becoming, a process unimpeded by the absence of an ‘origin’ or ‘natural condition’… David Leatherbarrow. ‘Preface’, Uncommon Ground . p. ix

t his retreat simply leaves fashion aside and concerns itself with nothing but the marks left by time in the soil, with the wind, the sun, the view and of course, the budget and program to respect. Each of the constraints encountered, each of the materials use, induces its own expression which modulates the plan, the volumes and the architectural vocabulary. Maio Saia, in Canadian Architect , December 2001. p5 To minimise impact on the site, new construction is limited to previously altered land and existing infrastructure —septic field, well, roads and paths.

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