No time was wasted getting started in the design for Jonas’ lake house. He told Aldo that the fee would not be an issue, to bill him whatever it would cost, and he didn’t want to be involved with the design of it. When he first met Aldo, he said, he knew he could trust him with that project. His beliefs were reaffirmed that day he visited the workshop and saw the models and studies. The budget was also left open-ended. “Don’t show me anything until you have the design finalized and you know it to be the right one for this lot,” he told Aldo. No strict deadline was set, though Jonas made it clear he preferred things to progress relatively quick so he could move in sooner than later. Jonas was living in an RV on that lot, for the time being. He had sold his primary home to afford the lot and the cost of constructing the new home.
Aldo spent a lot of time at the site. He would saunter around, sit in different locations and take notes of the views and the feelings that spot invoked, draw sketches of the landscape to better understand it, and most of the time would just stand and observe. They had a surveyor out to ensure precision when it came to the topography. It was a complicated site to build on after all. Once Aldo felt he had a grasp on the site, he returned to the workshop to begin drawing up the ideas that floated around in his head.
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