By designing your home, you'll achieve the joy of having just what you want and not more than you need. Our goals in this workshop are to develop the skills it takes to design a house which is affordable, energy efficient, beautiful and harmonious with your lifestyle. We will concentrate on site planning, construction principles (materials and structural styles), drafting techniques, visualization skills, and the use of Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language, which has inspired so many of our past students. Each student will design a house based on their individual "program" and requirements. Much of our time will be spent developing and drawing plans, elevations, and sections, culminating in the building of models. Please bring with you any ideas, sketches, or basic plans you wish to revise, as well as pictures and topographic maps of your potential site if you have one.
Enrollment is limited to six students.
