Negotiating the chicane created by this screen you enter
the heart of the house to be confronted by a panoramic view
of the sun glistening on the ocean. You have entered another
world. Walking out onto the terrace, shaded by the sail cloth
or not, the visitor finds him- or herself a storey above the
ground, on an in-between space contemplating the ocean
and its horizon. This in-between space is an architectural
relative of: the portico of a Greek temple (6), which intervenes
between the place of the god and the outside world; the beach
camp (7) which mediates between the sunbather and his or
her surroundings; and, perhaps most pertinently, the deck of
a cruise ship (8) from which well-heeled 1920s lovers, armin-arm,
gazed wistfully out to sea.