From the sleeping rooms to the dining room is a covered walk, open on one side, and in bad weather it is the most memorable part of the building.
Ines runs the kitchen and crosses it perhaps thirty times a day. She argued for the roof over it and lost, then argued again and won.
The retreat sits in a fold of the hill where the wind drops. That is the whole siting decision, and it took two winters of visits to be sure of it.
The buildings are small and separate on purpose. Nobody has to walk through a room that somebody else is using.
Hillside
Lodge
Ten
Minutes
of
Weather
through
One
Window