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FIGURE 3
Interior of Wimberley House of Healing. (Living Architecture)
ceiling height of almost 18 feet and a floor plan of about 12 by 16 feet, the
space lifts one's vision and spirits up through five clerestory windows.
The proportions of the space are divided into sacred numerical divisions:
five windows, seven spaces, a pair on the east wall depicting the dialectic
separation of heart and mind, three windows on the south suggesting union
of mind and heart into soul. Three niches just below the three windows
hold pictures of Christ the Healer and flanking angles to assist in the work.
Throughout the home, elemental pairs are set up to demonstrate the
concept of “The Space Between.” Double columns flank each space and
drop in the floor. Double steps on either side of the rooms allow movement
against walls. Furniture, like the human bodies they support, float always
away from the walls (and the sliding, slicing energy washing them) bathing
in the eddies of space in the middle of the rooms.
The naturally finished, non-outgassing, plywood-paneled ceiling, with
simple wood battens, maintains a level and horizontal plane, perhaps allud-
ing to the even emotional plane from which one might realize a better per-
spective. The floor falls ever lower toward the creek, beneath the ceiling,
