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Kershef
Flip →Rock salt + clay
Harvested from the lake bed, cut into blocks, bound with clay. The walls of the oasis for a thousand years. Cool in the heat, warm after sundown.
the house.
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An interactive plan.
Lake chamber.
A single cushioned window seat, a woven kilim, a bed turned east — the first blue of dawn reaches the pillow before the alarm.
Salt bathhouse.
A private dome of rock salt. A rain shower in the floor. Ninety minutes in, you forget the city you came from.
A wall of water.
Upstairs, a picture window the full width of the room. Woven medallions above twin beds. The largest private balcony in the lodge.
The long spine.
Rock salt bound with clay. Palm-beam ceiling. Deliberately dim — the corridor teaches you to slow down on your way through it.
Acacia screen.
A south wall of hand-fitted acacia blocks that filters the sun into coins across the floor. A clay oven, a wood fire.
Twelve seats, lantern-lit.
A single slab of travertine under a wide olive-wood ceiling. Open on three sides to the garden.
A green room.
Pomegranate, olive, jasmine. The courtyard cools the house by three degrees without moving a fan.
Lakefront.
A chair, a footstool, a cushion of Siwan linen. Turned to the water. The only room in the house where nothing happens on purpose.
Aligned to the mountain.
22 metres of still water, cut along the axis of the Mountain of the Dead. Salt-grey mosaic. Mirror-flat at dusk.
Chapter II · 02
A panorama, tap the hotspots.
Six points on a single view — the whole house summarised in one horizon.
Chapter II · 03 · Materials
Five ingredients.
Hover any card to read what it is and why it's here. Everything was within a day's walk of the site.
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Palm
Flip →Trunk · leaf · rope
Palm trunk for beams, palm leaf woven into ceilings, palm rope lashed into railings. A single tree can roof a room.
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Olive & acacia
Flip →Slow-grown, close-grained
Darkened by the sun. Used for doors, lintels and the low furniture that anchors every room.
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Lime
Flip →Five coats, by hand
Burned on the property, slaked, stirred for days. Lime washes that settle into the stone like breath, and glow from inside.
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Salt
Flip →The lake's own crystals
Used raw in the bathhouse, ground into plaster, poured into lanterns. The house tastes faintly of it.
Inside · outside
The lake is always