The house volume is the single most important aspect of the making of a house. The volume sits in the land, and has the power to make the land more profound, or to be at odds with it.

Nothing in the process of making the house is more important or more decisive.

HOUSE VOLUME

If badly chosen, it can ruin every aspect of the house, its interior life, its garden, and the street it is on. If chosen well, it is the origin of life in all these things: interior, daily life, garden, and street....