OUT OF TURN
he phrase that invariably issues to architects from clients with a bare site and the brief to build a new residence is ‘dream house’. The idiom comes steeped in idealisations of scale, surface show, room count, readycooked landscape and a decorative drama that shouts to the world, ‘We’ve made it.’ But as designers consistently lament, aspirations nearly always fall short of budgets and the bigger purpose of housing dreams — building a place of reverie in which the imagination can run free and the soul can cradle.
