Berryessa House: Design Development Drawings – Site plan

Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...

The design process of a project and its construction process are united into one continuous and intertwined making process, unfolding in a step-by-step sequence. Design ends together with the completion of the construction process. "Making" is a conception of the ...

Each act of building needs to have a positive effect on its surroundings; to complete them, preserve their structure, make them better, by creating strong centers in them and next to them. Each new building is more alive when it ...

Floor plan based on the survey of the top boards of the foundation formwork; it depicts the five volumes of the house –main house volume with living room and kitchen, studio volume, library and bedroom volume, storage tower, workshop and ...

Drawing sheet with five sections through all the individual house volumes and their connecting structures.

Drawing sheet with three elevations of the individual volumes of the house; one of them combined with a longitudinal section.

Photographs of four design development drawings of the house. These hardline drawings were produced after the completion of the construction of the formwork for the foundation works, ensuring that all trees of the site were preserved and the house volumes ...