CONCEPT
Informed by tribal architecture like Rain forest and Island peoples buildings
Speaks of animistic and nature oriented traditions around the world
Borrowing freely from
- Euopean Church Steeple Buildings, with wide base and tall narrow profile
- Indo-Chinese/ Malay style curved roofs
- Buddhist architecture and symbolism
- Fantasy and sci-fi postulations
BUILDING SPECIFICATIONS
- Stone and timber structure
- Mud and natural fiber walls (wattle and daub)
- Translucent natural resin for windows and sky roof
- Grass Roof coated with hardshell layer
- Wreath and Bough Window Frames, gilded with metal
- Metal Gilded Jungle Ferns used for banister handrails
- Natural log staircase
- Natural logs for beams and columns
- Roof beams and joists arranged as tree branches
- Horizontal beams carved with magical symbols
- Giant weaver bird nest for porch covering
- Solid timber doors carved with tesselation (wovern leather strip patterns)
- Cold fire Torch at front door
- Cold fire lanterns at back entrance
- Carved Animal Totems (Guardian Spirits) on roof ledge
- Bronze Sun Disc on central roof post
- Roof gable with lattice work moldings featuring mystical symbols
- Dragon Scale Windows - Large wooden windows with swivel mechanism and round slates
- Ceremonial Bell hanging from wooden post carved with bear's head
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