This arrangement, informed by the principles of universal access, serves Adam and Kerry's desire to age in place, to have all they need now - and all they are likely to need in the future - on one level. Yet another hard-working element of the design, this verandah also mediates sunlight and associated heat, with operable jarrah shutters above ground level that can be closed to the ferocious summer sun and opened to invite gentler winter light inside. "We were puzzling about how we were going to get the house to face north on this site", says Kerry, who had initially wondered whether she and Adam were "brave enough" for the unusual plan proposed by Phil. "We drew a line where we needed to be, parallel to north", Phil explains. [Extracted from the article]
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