Some work obligation kept Jonas away for months. In the meantime, he had authorized Aldo to proceed with construction, though he had not yet seen the final design. “I like the idea of it being even more of a surprise. You are designing it to fit my needs and I know it will turn out right,” Jonas had said in reply to Aldo’s objections.
And so Aldo proceeded, as instructed, and brought on contractors to begin work. Shipments of materials soon arrived on site and Aldo cringed, watching as the first trucks tore through that untouched landscape. So, he created a system for staging where the trucks would be required to take only one route in and out and drop off materials at a designated zone close to the construction. The trails the trucks cut through the site would later transform into a small path as the native vegetation grew up around.
Drilling through the stone hill to set foundations proved to be no easy task and took up much of the time early on in the construction. It was a difficult site to work due to the steep slope. Soon the concrete pilotis grew out from the hillside and the floor slab took form. When the concrete trucks left and the formwork was taken down, what remained was a skinny profile slab that appeared to be floating feet above the hill, cascading downwards following the slope. It really was breathtaking how it was severed from the earth but already blending into the side of the hill.
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