{"id":"asset_b8250afe25b3","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"07-house-at-tessellate-bay.txt","size_bytes":4946,"title":"07 house at tessellate bay","description":"An architect's working journal for an unbuilt coastal house designed for a retired marine engineer. It documents the site conditions, client requirements, design solutions addressing wind and acoustics, the planning refusal, and reflections on procedural mistakes and innovations worth preserving.","extracted_text":"THE HOUSE AT TESSELLATE BAY — PROJECT JOURNAL FOR A BUILDING NEVER BUILT\nOriginal architectural fiction. The client, site, and practice are invented.\n\nCommission received March. Abandoned November, at the client's instruction,\nafter planning refusal and before appeal. These are my working notes. I keep\nthem because the unbuilt ones teach more than the built ones.\n\n── THE SITE ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\n2.1 hectares, north-facing, on a shelf of basalt 14 m above a working bay.\nWind is the whole problem. Prevailing NNW at a mean 24 km/h, gusting to 90 in\nwinter, laden with salt at every hour of the year. Nothing soft survives here.\nThe existing structure — a collapsed net store — has one wall standing, and it\nstands because it is 900 mm thick and has no openings on the seaward side.\n\nThat wall is the brief. The client did not say so. The wall said so.\n\n── CLIENT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\nA widow, 71, a r","attributes":{},"usable_for":["acoustic design strategy using mass walls","accessible design solutions for elderly clients","design process and decision-making documentation","coastal architecture response to environmental conditions"],"provenance":"original-work","provenance_note":"An original architectural project journal by its author, in the form of working notes.","kind":"original work of fiction in the form of an architectural project journal","reliable_for":"The text, plot, characters, voice and quotable lines of this work.","describe_v":6,"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":200},"content_available":true,"available":true,"retained_offered":false,"embed_offered":false,"licences":{"single-task":{"sats":200,"grants":"use for one task, then let go"},"retained":null,"embed":null}}