About
Swoon is a project that pays homage to the beauty of nature in both energy usage and aesthetics, proving sustainable design can result in a space that is both elegant and comfortable. Unity, wholeness, infinite: the circle holds particular significance in ancient and modern culture, symbolizing that which is without a beginning or an end. It is eternal.
This building is intended to be an icon in a new generation of urban sustainable residences, using local materials with a focus on renewable resources. Ingredients include rammed earth, concrete, steel, glass and wood from recycled train car sides. The internal open architecture is in keeping with a design philosophy allowing space to encourage creative manifestations of living, such as needed for residence, studio and entertaining for the benefit of the arts and non-profit organizations.
Architect: Mike Moore, tres birds
Landscape Design: Karla Dakin, K. Dakin Design
Swoon: To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy, a state of ecstasy or rapture
to be overwhelmed with spirit,
to feel the rush and to run over with it, like a cup runs over,
to collapse, to keel over, to die to the old, to let go of preconceived notions,
to feel giddy, lightheaded or dizzy with the fullness of all the senses,
to faint, to go out like a light, to lose consciousness
and then to pass into a new consciousness,
to syncope, to let one’s heart reinvent itself,
to experience a deliquium, a melting or dissolution in the air, a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium,
the change of a physical awareness toward a spiritual awakening.
from Old German swogen, “to sigh”,
not in resignation but with renewed insight