From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To:' < Subject: Re: Little st James (LSJ) Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:35:37 +0000 lets also look at the Indonesian builder. , unlike houses on land, the house on the island can not sit in the land, you must take control of the landscape. if it sits in the land the island wins, the concept of parttiere„ taking control of the earth needs to be the theme, in a hurricane you want a strong house. , not a sunken ship. my contruction manager will show you around On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:46 PM, > wrote: 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 Stemlicht 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 thinkin