Wall Block

Roof material has the metal mesh grid

Elevation Concept

Floor Plan Concept 2BD-1-1/2 Bath 960ft^2

Ultimately we ended up with a conceptual design that incorporates the largest floor plan square footage, that will have a shed style roof, using The Perfect Block for the walls, and the RSG material for the roof.  I am trusting Drew's expertise of design/build for the optimum fire rated performance as well as a low maintenance high quality home.  I let him know I'd prefer a smaller home with higher quality materials.  Even though I like the hyperbolic small home below, I believe Drew felt like that roof in a mountain climate with snow, might be problematic, which I was aware of, but just enjoying the creative flow after visiting Ilan Lael Foundation and seeing all the curvy structures his father, James created.  I've always realized when designing you shoot for the moon, and come back to earth when reality takes its hold.  So I am happy with the design iteration that ultimately led to the most ideal floorplan for my needs, prior to contracting Drew and his team to get me through the rest of the process as efficiently as possible, while learning from their many years of experience.  The windows will likely be solid wood with aluminum cladding for a softer interior feel matching other high quality enriching material selections to come.  

Below are a run through many of the design concepts.  

 

Targa Times

Inside Out Restaurant in Uptown, San Diego

Had a nice Memorial Run with Andy to Yellow Deli for coffee and cars over breakfast.

We'll make a video tomorrow of his wife's 996 cabriolet they are selling to upgrade to a 997.2

A little drizzly, so the Targa got cozy.

 

 

Living the dream~

Idyllic Mountain Top Pool

Emma, new home builder

Gem Show

Had a wonderful end of the week at the foundation, doing some volunteer work to be surrounded by such a warm, artistically enriching environment and similar like minded people that were there for similar reasons.  New friends made, more details seen to take note of for future building projects.  The environment we place ourselves in truly reflects in our present and future decisions we make.  I met Emma, who is building her first home, she just closed on two weeks ago, and Ben, who offered to help out at my place, and I returned the consideration.  I also found out about a local straw bale workshop happening this weekend, Emma is attending, also using Drew for the design.  

At noon, we gathered for lunch.  Then after work we went for a swim on the mountaintop pool and continued conversations and getting to know others and their back stories to bringing them to where we met.

This morning I met up with Alexandra, Jon and Monico for my first Pickelball game and had fun after warming up.  We had a great time and a fellow named Steve provided lessons, and Jarrot joined us for a few games.   Alexandra gave me an Ace and San Marzano Tomato plants and they are happy in my greenhouse now.  I'm finally eating veggies right of the plant at mealtime at both locations I frequent.  Happy times for sure.  

MCM

 

I'll have to read up on this one  and find out if there is an architect linked to this iconic MCM design.  I will attempt to simplify the roof of the last concept something closer to this, with a possibly space on top as a lookout.

Conceptual Floor Plan

Still need some doors and to break out windows and such, but looking good.

 

Good day of progress!

Quitting time.

Roof!

Roof is on.

Walls and floor plan done

Time to experiment with a variety of roof shapes.

Walls are 24” for straw bale and 9’ tall with header lower dim at 7’.

Finally a day of design work

A brief catch-up from the days leading up to this Thursday, which is going to be dedicated to home design in the upstairs of the windmill.

I was back in Oceanside last Sunday picking the blackberries off the vine. They were super tasty and ripe for the picking.

I didn’t spend much time there since it was for a standard Dentist six month cleaning, but did enjoy driving the 1982 911SC back from Jaybird. This car has 22k original miles and will likely get some dry ice blasting and list on BaT. I’d love to keep it, but if the reserve is met, it will be sold. I only have space for 1 or two. I’m replacing the 10 year old tires this weekend and heading to a PCA event in the Cayman which is also for sale. After the tires are installed I will adjust the suspension accordingly as it sits too high.

Upon arriving back to Jaybird, it was mostly time spent watering fruit trees, and moving the limbs I pruned for fire safety into a pile to be chipped soon.

I did install a solar blaster fan in my shipping container and used an old wood holesaw to cut the first 2.5 inch hole for vents. However, the new saw arrived that is carbide tipped and should cut through like Swiss cheese. I’ll take care of more of those today or tomorrow.

I realize I haven’t worked on the home design in the computer since February. It’s been mostly sketches and I’ve come to some very detailed ideas on paper with pencil and now it’s time to generate an Electronic CAD File using Creo two. This is the engineering software I use for over two decades to design consumer products and so it works well for home design as well.

Tomorrow I will be volunteering at Ilan Lael Foundation for 4 hours. The weather is turning warm and was 80° yesterday. Their pool will be open for the volunteers so I will enjoy a cool off between doing landscape work at their facility.

On Tuesday evening, I attended a figure drawing class, and enjoyed the immersion into sketching again, which I haven’t done in probably two decades. I’m definitely very rusty and many of the participants were advanced. I look forward to practicing more and getting back to where I’m feeling more confident with my sketching skills.

Time to get this home concept into a detailed CAD model so let’s get the classical music playing in the incense flowing and dive right in. I’ll definitely update once I know what it is. I’m looking to build.

At this point, my dream house would have two bedrooms and two baths with a two car garage.

Here are a few interior images of inspiration from Gawthorne’s Hut, an architect designed retreat like space in Oz. I love how simple and clean the space is. I also used a similar wood, called Meranti, which is a marine mahogany based plywood as seen on the walls in my van build.

Design time!

I wrote about buying a car in FLA when I was supposed to be doing other things. Well, I’m back, rested and ready to drop into the small home design I need to put permanent roots down in my happy mountain abode.

The view from the design studio.

The inside of the 2nd story of the Windmill, well house.

I had the pleasure of touring some of the late James Hubbell’s work on his 1 year anniversary of passing on. His wife, now 98 was also present among other family members.

His design desk.

The joyful, creative, illustrious couple.

A look at the outside of the design studio with Saffron keeping the greenery popping in Spring.

I plan on siding the upper story with Corten corrugated 22 Gauge sheets for a rustic look.