Berryessa Terraced House: Design Development Drawings – Final design based on the survey of the top boards of the foundation formwork

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 ...

Site plan with contour lines, existing trees, roof configuration of the various buildings together with outdoor structures, and their distance dimensions from the lot boundaries.

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

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

Floor plan of the main volume of the house with its veranda and connecting staircases.

Photographs of four design development drawings of the house including Floor Plan, Elevations, Sections and Construction Details. These hardline drawings were produced after the completion of the construction of the formwork for the foundation works, ensuring that all trees of ...