Hot spa with marble terrazzo pools

Hot tub and cold tub hand-worked in yellow, green and white terrazzo, surrounded by a marble decked outdoor room with seats. Trellised walk, stairs and decking through the house gardens leading to the spa area.

Close up view of the ornamental patterns in yellow, green and white, built with terrazzo marble dust and color pigments.

Two views of the pools and the deck during construction, showing the styrofoam pieces set on the concrete slab. These fillers are in the places where the colored ornaments will be, and will be filled in with colored marble dust ...

Image of the round pool with its deck focusing on the terrazzo works with ornaments in yellow, green and white.

Christopher Alexander postulated that centers and the field of centers they create are the building blocks from which wholeness is made. However, he further argued that geometry alone is not sufficient, and that color is the way wholeness comes to ...

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