12. how does the house relate to nature?
Well, you see, basically the HOF presents two incredibly different but not necessarily incompatible responses to nature. As alluded to before, the house is incredibly paranoid and insulated from a hostile nature. This hostile nature includes the world of germs, bacteria, disease, uncomfortable temperatures, and things otherwise detrimental to human health, as well as more man-made hazards such as war and pollution. In this sense then, the house responds to the modern condition and reality of nature with cold denial. Thus, if the hostile nature is what the house is trying to avoid, then the ideal nature, nature as seen through the eyes of Adam and Eve is its necessary goal. The multi-layered encapsulation of the "tube of unbreathed air" that composes the center of the house is the untainted Garden of Eden around which the house is fashioned. All views, purified by glass walls, lead inward towards this slice of heaven.
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