House and Spiritual Retreat for Mary LaMar: Handwritten note to Christopher Alexander referring to sketches and asking his feedback on house layout adjustments made on site, regarding details of house volumes position; includes two drawings

Vacation house overlooking Tomahawk Lake, on a site with pronounced slop and existing cottage. The wish of the client, to preserve part of the cottage, was seriously considered and it was incorporated successfully into the design of the new house. ...

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 ...

RS’s Version 19-Aug-1994 is noted on the drawing. Randall Schmidt’s revised proposal of the building layout staked on site, overlaid with dotted thick line above the initial layout.

Four images depict an alternative stake out of the house named “serpentine version” by Alexander.

Nine images depict the staked-out area of the full building length, the central building and two structural column locations; two collage and two single images of a more worked out version.