Enourmous inland lake

A quick beer at the castles lookout with party members in usual mode, Niall (left) sketching and Yan (right) fiddling with things that aren't his. Note the looming mountain again, now referred to as the 'Dutchkilla'.

Part of the Austrian Alps massif looming over the Salzburg Plataeux, taken from atop the Castle Hohensalzburg. Yan felt he could climb in one day; I reminded him that it peaks around 2,800 metres and that he came from the Netherlands, a place of no mountains, and that therefore his frame of reference was incredulous.

Yan and Niall overlook the City of Salzburg ... posers. I remember a photograph similar to this from my childhood - where I'm sitting on some wall somewhere. Father/Mother - any clues?

Popped over to Salzburg this weekend ... home of the Von Trapp family and a massive salt mine. The town borders Germany, which we accessed via a mine and for a lunch stop, but primarily we went for the mountain scenery. Its easy to forget, living in Vienna all the time, that I m in Austria and should enjoy the Alps more often ...

Versions of different forms with the same floor sizes



New images of form ideas for the Sur la Plage project - this is a retreat for an artist on the beach, hidden amongst the trees. Although conceptual forms at the moment, these will be worked up into constructive buildings as the project progresses.

Some more design work - sketching up floor plans and form ideas for some artist retreats along the beach in Le Touquet, France