Power Struggle: Eco?
Bamboo Dreams: Temple Ridge Designs
There are three giant stands of bamboo on our landscape. Seems obvious we should try to use them to build our first major structure; a simple but beautiful one-bed bamboo Eco-house…the idea…
Jungle Base Camp: Evolution
Less Is More: Unless There’s Nothing!
When everything is a bonus small steps in the right direction feel like big wins…
Helicopter Pad: Before & After
Don’t tell Denise but Bali has forty six known kinds of land snakes, six of these are highly venomous!!!
They include spitting cobras, king cobras, green pit vipers, two sorts of kraits (banded and blue), and the Asian coral snake which strangely is also a land snake. Fair to say you never know when you might need an airlift. So I’ve built a mountain top helicopter pad!… Ok so its actually a car park but… Continue reading “Helicopter Pad: Before & After”
The Pagoda: Building our First Structure
It’s befitting that the first blade in the soil was to create a public space.
It was Norm, our new friends’ idea. The structure which has stood in his grounds for many years offered to help us take our first step… Continue reading “The Pagoda: Building our First Structure”
Action Plan: Video Walk-through
We could have invested in a tidy little villa on the coast, opted for a turn-key new life in the tropics… it certainly would have been easier…
For sure, it’s easy to say and summaries the challenge as I have, ‘transform a jungle-clad mountain into a home and...’ but having spent a month getting to know this wild place, it’s clear the skills needed and perhaps resources, are much more than we have. Saying this, I haven’t once doubted our choice and every day I stroll the landscape with a mile-wide smile making plans. So here they are…(video) Continue reading “Action Plan: Video Walk-through”
First Night: Never More Alive
As anyone who has wandered alone through a forest, looked out from a mountaintop or stared in silence at a sunset, will likely have felt…
Base Camp V1: Back to Basics
Turns out, nature on this scale needs to be listened to!
The Landscape / Initial Plans
