do you know what a local farm house would look like bones but in fact the what you can go in and out is essentially more mediterranean. and me that on this house learning the borders between insight and knowledge and sophistication and wilderness the house is in perfect harmony with nature just as a traditional icelandic farmhouse would have been. in this. league and i see it as a privilege being allowed to build a house here getting planning permission called on so i feel like i would like to give something back to others people driving by. so i designed the house to fit into its surroundings it means lots of poznań so it s a. crazy home in a very unkindly spot between the steep mountains of iceland s westfield s on the northwest of europe. and finally the world cup was
and of course better to test the songs the first song in their own customers such. like. so our staff must have certainly got something indian fans driving through hamburger house very unusual as we were just. lovely and spreading world cup fever all around their adopted hometown. definitely country definitely hard and with that we wrap up another week of euro max as always it was good to have you along and will fare against.
means we get sun flooding the brow even in winter no longer out lots of parts of iceland especially in the west are your words i don t see any sun for two months so i want to cairo but it s sunny here until the eleventh of december and then the sun comes back on the first of january but between those two days the sun is only there for thirty seconds. winters in iceland are not only dark they can also be harsh with strong winds and heavy snow. these are photographs of the house completely snowed under for going for snow including the top windows or i had to climb up two metres from the ground to dig them out to let light in and. given the often inhospitable climate the house is built from weather resistant material it s. neatly made out of concrete covered with launch of dolly minium and has
creating a kind of photographic noma s with his speeches. but all of the first endangered flowers that i photographed fifteen or seventeen years ago no longer exist blood cells some are already extinct or says it s a big dilemma or a big problem but at least my photographs exist. and that is something to be thankful for. time now to take a trip and for that we re heading to iceland and more specifically we re going to a place called west fiords some five hundred kilometers north of reykjavik now with iceland s ever changing weather it s not that easy to design a house where light is supposed to be the central focus but german home owner pay to advice as john done just that and the result is a structure inspired by a farmhouse which fits perfectly into its surroundings.