Little st James (LSJ)

Hi
Get a book: Small Houses by Nicolas Pople....printed by Universe

I built a fishing cabin for a client in Ireland...south 3 hour drive from Shannon...bad winds so we made it close to the ground and built sunken court yards with stone houses....my inspiration was vernacular irish homesteads but got a lot from the book mentioned above...Greek island houses have the same idea

Page 32...greek terraced dwelling Page 46...irish boat house(similar to my house in the hamptons) Page 147 australian stone house

I will scan these for you... no need to get the book...send this tomorrow... My inclination is to design these structures into the landscape not on top of the landscape....cinder block construction and stucco finishing with wooden details....I have a 6 man crew from Ecuador that live on long island and Julian has a brother in Tampa....plant them on the island for 10 months and they can build all of this for you.We can plan this like a Kit...everything is ordered We stage this in Florida..stock pile the elements,windows,doors,hardware,roof material,lumber,plumbing fixtures and the rest...then ship this to the main island and over too LSJ....

I was going to do this for Barry Sternlicht on Turks....with help from an indonesian builder that I met in the Maldives.What they do is stage everything then ship it all to the site like a kit and the team just builds from a plan.

Getting ahead of myself but am thinking backwards as this is a logistic exercise.

Design so it can be built in this way... Who from your team will show me around on island...?

Hope your new legal events are unfolding in your favor

Mark