[house] chambers- passages ground- sky sacred- profane

[house] chambers/ passages/ ground/ sky/ sacred/ profane

west place house could be interpreted as an echo of the entrance carns to be found on the western perimeter of penwith with its subterranean passage and chambers, earth covered rooms and courts.

the route through the house from sea-side to town-side, takes you on a journey of descending levels past the courts and chambers with their differing relationships with the ground out into the rear court, then up again to the garden which now sits above the sleeping chambers and bath, and on across a bridge into the room with the most direct relationship with the atlantic coast and sea, on up to the crows nest, the sky, sunsets and sea. what was profane [the house] became sacred [the earth covered chambered barrows and carns] and what was sacred is once again made secular [the subterranean house].