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The building is raised above the slope
on angled pilotis for various reasons: to avoid timber rot from
excess moisture, to maximize views and to "reinstate the
rocky texture and scale of the mountain terrain beneath the building".
A cylindrical core leads to a level of underground parking and
storage.
Hopefully the materiality of the final
product, as seen in the construction detail at left, will lend
the building a less "alien" quality in the landscape
than the renderings indicate. Regardless, Foster's past work
illustrates that a building's environmental aspects are just
as important as its aesthetics. |
