Lionel Buckett squats barefoot on the stone outcropping that forms a natural verandah to his latest extraordinary creation. Weathered and weary with a shock of curly orange hair, he's looking out across a magnificent, pristine valley in Australia's Blue Mountains range, a view that probably hasn't changed in thousands, even hundreds of thousands of years. "It's an interesting thing with passive solar design," he muses, "that a cave facing north is probably the first passive solar building that humans ever lived in.".. Continue Reading Lionel Buckett's spectacular Clifftop Cave nears completion
Section: Architecture
Tags: Australia, Blue Mountains Cabins, Cave, Construction
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