BOSTON: The use of recycled material gives a simple pavilion a time-worn appearance – but it is entirely new.
The name and first-glance appearance of Sawmill House, the primary project of Chris Gilbert and his recently established three-man design practice suggests it has been constructed on the carcass of an industrial ruin.
Those giant, rock-like blocks look like the remnants of a building on what was a sawmill site before sculptor Ben Gilbert commissioned his younger brother to design a one bedroom house set on the escarpment above a big hole that had – in an even earlier incarnation – been a gold mining quarry.
The pit is now a dam and is part of the outlook from this fascinatingly original building that is, in fact, entirely new…
