This collaborative project was with a great team. Architect Drew Hubbell, with Hubbell and Hubbell along with a cast of excellent professionals made this project a success. Teo Briseno was instrumental in the natural stonework*. He worked on the earthworks and dry set boulders among the courtyard of Thich Nhat Hanh’s cottage. The Nuns encouraged the stonework to blend with the trees and hills of the site and gave guidance for the project.
Straw Bale construction, natural plasters, local stone, boulders and rainwater harvesting set this project apart. Thich Nhat Hanh’s Monastery, Deer Park, now has this beautiful example for our bioregion’s present and future to live more in balance.
