Gallery

: The bar.

: African olive wood table with turquoise and lapiz lazuli inlay.

: African olive wood table with turquoise and lapiz lazuli inlay.

: A glimpse of the backyard area from inside the main house.

: Massive and old olive trees saved from being cut into firewood. I turned them upside down, treated them and embedded them into concrete.

: A finished render of the backyard area. In reality we have moved the fire pit to the right in consideration of the wind. As well, in the foreground we have added an outside dining space and a bar area just to the left of the pool. Finally, the guesthouse in the background will be a cordwood house.

: The finished frame work for the roof of the main house.

: Floating staircase painstakingly anchored into the bathroom stone wall.

: The fire place going all the way to the reciprocal roof.

: Another look to the chimney

: An accurate finished picture of the inside of the main house. As well, the ceiling material covering the frame is different in order to showcase the frame work better.

: At Reflections I discovered the beauty of building with natural branches.

: A built in bookcase with yet to be installed carved wood panelling.

: Low sun in the winter months means warm sunshine helping to passively heat the house.

: Below Recep and his son Koray lifted the heavy posts into place.

: The bar and the beautiful mountains of Kabak Valley.

: The main entrence of the house and the moon gate.

: The moon gate before completion.

: A yin yang design. I treated the wood around this fireplace with fire retardant. The eyes of the yin yang are yin yang circles themselves made from colorful glass mosaic by Nevres.

: Main house on the left. Utility room in the middle and the moon gate main entrance. Above is our energy system.

: The loft. Space for a desk on the left, a large bed behind the natural branch privacy wall, and on the right plenty of room for closets, dressing area etc.

: Thick Sapeli planks anchored into the stone wall wind their way up to the loft. Below right built in kitchen shelving can be seen.

: The kitchen area. We will add cabinets across the stone wall.

: View from the guest house area.

: The upper windows allow more light for the loft area as well as a great view.

: Getting creative in difficult conditions.

: A curved stone tv wall on the left.

: I first built the platform joists secured to 4 large temporary vertical columns and then fastened the angled columns underneath. When it was all done I removed the temporary columns.

: The reciprocal frame supported by natural branches harvested from the forest.

: A view from the loft floor level before we built the bedroom privacy wall.

: The natural edge stairs and sitting area.

: Carrying the heavy posts to support the bar columns.

: Plenty of electrical outlets everywhere.

: Underneath of the pool lounge roof.

: Every bathroom should have such a view.

: Over the years I had collected many large olive tree branches fallen in storms. I used a lot of them for the lower entrance of the camp.

: One of the first reciprocal frames I built.

: Custom cut rafter tips over the pool lounge.

: With some work we will turn these into polished natural statues. What better way to support the pool lounge.

: After a long winter and spring the bar with its reciprocal frame roof is almost ready.

: The bathroom wall and the reciprocal roof and you can see the living room all together.

: The double frame roof: conical form frame supported by both itself and the reciprocal frame underneath

: It was enough to make you crazy!

: Beautiful but lots of work

: The living room is sunk 40 centimeters below the kitchen level.

: I put built in planters into the new deck making it a highly customized deck.

: A view of the 4.5 meter floor to ceiling fire place enclosed by natural stone.

: Extensive use of natural branches can be found throughout the project. Stripped of their bark, treated and varnished they are in themselves works of art.

: The beautiful netural edge stairs.

: Another example of reciprocal roof.

: Bathroom wall the the nicely varnished African Sapeli floating stairs.

: Walnut wood with a mix of turquoise and lapiz lazuli inlay.

: Stones of lapiz lazuli compliment the softer crushed turquoise stone inlay.

: The dog got tired of watching the sheep so now he watches the property.

: Glass doors that lead to pool area and entrance to bathroom on the right.

: The first form of the bar platform.

: The exceptional moon gate is the entrance point to The Beyler House. The polished branches are a hint of what’s to come.

: Highly sanded walnut wood with turquoise inlay.

: An accurate finished render of the project.

: Another sitting area next to the pool.

: The new owners of Reflections thankfully copied my deck design when refurbishing the old deck.

: The bathroom ceiling.

: Outside the main entrance.

: Upper windows and the roof eave composed of hundreds of natural branches.

: Statuesque natural wood, sanded and polished.

: Following the natural and open space theme of the camp the shared bathroom was an early favorite at the camp.

: Large windows mean great lighting throughout the year.

: Just waiting for pump installation and the pool will be ready.

: A view of the reciprocal frame ceiling is visible from nearly everywhere in the house.

: The Reflections Camp bar set impossibly against the towering mountains of Kabak Valley.

: Not always easy to walk in between the frame woods.

: A bar on the right, landscaping and decking will complete the picture.

: The lower entrance.

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