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MERIDIAN 87
Reserve

24° 41′ S · 68° 12′ W

Nine rooms

No two of them face the same way.

We walked the ground at night for a season and built where the ground was already good. The plans disagree with each other because the site does.

A spare guest room with lime-plaster walls and a linen bed, one deep-set window holding a distant ridge above the basin floor and throwing a hard rectangle of light across the concrete.

Room 01

Ridge

One deep window, one ridge, and a rectangle of light that crosses the floor.

Area
38 m²
Aspect
East
Sleeps
2
From
€420
A heavy timber door standing open onto a small walled courtyard of pale flagstone, one tree against a high plaster wall, a second door opposite.

Room 02

Courtyard

Opens through a timber door onto a walled square with one tree in it.

Area
44 m²
Aspect
North, enclosed
Sleeps
2
From
€460
Raking light crossing a lime-plaster wall on a hard diagonal, one half in full sun and the other in shadow, trowel marks picked out along the edge.

Room 03

Corner

Two windows on adjacent walls. What they do to the wall is the room.

Area
41 m²
Aspect
North and west
Sleeps
2
From
€440
A plaster bath sunk into a stone floor below a deep window opening, the water still, folded linen on the ledge, leaf shadow moving across the wall.

Room 04

Cistern

A plaster bath sunk into the floor beside a window that starts at the waterline.

Area
52 m²
Aspect
South
Sleeps
2
From
€540
A narrow single room with one bed, a small desk and stool, and a window looking onto a courtyard wall.

Room 05

Sill

The smallest room. One bed, one desk, one window.

Area
26 m²
Aspect
East
Sleeps
1
From
€310
A built-in plaster bench turning the corner beneath a deep unglazed window opening, one linen cushion and a throw on it, a large earthenware jar on the stone floor.

Room 06

Bench

A plaster bench that runs the window wall and turns the corner.

Area
47 m²
Aspect
North
Sleeps
3
From
€490
A guest room with a plastered fireplace lit and burning, split wood stacked at one end of the raised hearth, a low linen sofa turned toward it.

Room 07

Hearth

A plaster fireplace with a raised hearth, and wood stacked at the end of it.

Area
45 m²
Aspect
West
Sleeps
2
From
€500
A covered terrace off a guest room, a low plaster wall at its edge, pale flagstone underfoot, and the far wall of the basin forty kilometres out under a bleached sky.

Room 08

Terrace

No window. A covered terrace, and forty kilometres of basin past the end of it.

Area
43 m²
Aspect
West, open
Sleeps
2
From
€480
A guest room in deep shadow with a large square skylight cut flush into the ceiling directly above the bed, showing blank bright sky.

Room 09

Zenith

The bed sits directly beneath a two-metre skylight.

Area
40 m²
Aspect
Overhead
Sleeps
2
From
€620