window heavily shaded, an opaque incandescent
opening in this otherwise rather forbidding slab. This,
and many other features of these houses appear to play
upon a metaphor of opening and closing, of veiling and
revelation. The overall impression is of a triptych temple
to privacy.
In a sense, "S Cube Chalet" is a misnomer; the word
Cubist would be more apposite. For "cube" implies
foursquare, and the elements of these buildings are
anything but. They are, in essence, three cubes fractured
into triangulated shards and reassembled into a more
complex but still unified whole, one more satisfying in its
multifaceted mystery than a mere cube could be. H
HYLAND
