Berryessa Terraced House: Sketches – Site layout process with field notes

A sequence of eleven sketches made during a period of two monthes that the house was laid out on the site. They demonstrate the results of this layout process, until the setting of each house volume on the land was finalized. The first two sketches include recordings of the site conditions and its predominant trees, as well as annotations for the location of structures among the trees and of main connecting paths and stairs; the other eight sketches depict the sequence of the house layout progress in four basic transformations, each subsequent one approximating the final setting out of the house on its site. The sketches are based on the recordings of the stakes used on site to mark corners of buildings and open spaces.