The track ... extends through the site, 
weaves through the bracken (natural), 
meets and touches the hut 
(architecture), and continues its 
"journey". 

The "visitor" acts in the same way. The 
visitor's arrival is passive: to pass by, 
maybe, a place to rest, a place to 
pause , to catch one's breath. 

Architecture (hut) is also revealed as a 
"moment in time"; to pause, to escape 
from the grandeur and shelter amongst 
"a minute part of the whole" . 

. . . this is a point, a moment, where 
architecture and the visitor(track), relate 
and meet, and share a mutual dialogue 
- (both are in the act of pausing). Both 
the visitor and hut leave the ground - to 
retreat. 

The relationship amongst site, visitor 
and architecture is "understood". 

.. . a log lies silent 
Once a tree, 
frozen, gentle, quietly sleeping, 
peaceful and harmless. 
A detail. 
A detail of architecture? 
A detail amongst the grandeur of the site, 
lost, forgotten, a memory, protected. 
A hidden detail (that no one sees), 
undisturbed, waiting . 
Waiting to be found; discovered . 
. . . Architecture to be disclosed, 
discussed, and realised . 
. . . To look beneath the skin, 
to unravel, unearth, realise, 
the potential, a secret 
Nature, the rhythms of time, 
texture, colour, form, structure. 
To witness a thousand years, 
before people. 
I ask is this history, is this ancient times? 
... To reflect to stop, to rest, to pause. 
I am a visitor, greetings. 

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plan 

elevation 

REWI THOMPSON 

Carter Holt Harvey 
Environmental Award 
Registered Architect 
First Place 1994 
photography Lynn Logan 

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