Re: Design Process: Call for experiences | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Stephen Hawthorne (hawthornacpub.duke.edu) | |
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 14:20 CST |
Blue Heron Farm talked with a wonderful local architect who is very committed to ecologically sound development, one of the cornerstones of our project. She did up a proposal for phase one which came out way higher than we could really afford, so we're proceeding down another road: buying houses that have to be moved for whatever reason and retrofitting them for passive solar, airtightness, etc. While we are up to our eyebrows in development and construction details, it really is a lot of fun and it is doing what Roger Diggle referred to: connecting us closely as a group and to our land. We are talking to the Design School at NC State Univ about having their students do a studio, where they work on a live project out in the world. Hopefully they will give us a hand with site planning and perhaps with plans for the common house. We were afraid to put off the common house due to costs because it seems like such a crucial element to the process of community. Right now we're looking at an old white clapboard Baptist church as a possible community house. I guess you could call our development and design process "learn as you go and as you sit and wait". But I did get a call this morning from the contractor whose going to dig and pour the first footings, and he says it's definite for next week. Now to get a hold of the mason who wandered off somewhere shortly after the houses were rolled into the southern field, 5 weeks behind their promised delivery date, and then to find the housemover to push them over the footings so the mason can lay the block, and the electrician just won't return our calls this week..... Stephen Hawthorne Blue Heron Farm Chatham County, NC
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