Friday, October 20, 2006
Posted at 8:26 PM UT
by
Tamara
The following are
Design Inspirations on the
Prototype Energy Efficient Design to be created on a forty
acre mountain top.
Style: Modern Temple
Maintainence Free Exteriors of colorized, striated cements,
adobes, frescos, sculptured with body molds like the Palace
of Fine Arts.
1450 square foot Interior.
Three or more times that amount in semi-sheltered,
glassed, screened, rainprotected exterior patio and lanai space.
Maximum Height allowed is 28 foot high ceilings in the great
open area/ library room - housing 10,000 books being
recycled from the Libraries - with cat walks for access to
books, and with double wide glassed arched doorways out to
patio rooftop sheltered rooms and walkabouts.
This space can be easily enclosed with a second floor at a
latter date, should additional footage be needed - so
doors.windows, skylights on the north, all in place for
that easy potential.
Minimum 8 foot wide, 4 feet deep, 40 foot long- rainwater
collection/fed/
lap pool with the western sunset side as
endless horizon design- non rectangular–filtered - gravity fed
to garden and additional storage.
Possible Solar Powered Ozoned for purification - chemical free.
Pool may need to be sheltered against ingress of rodents,
insects, animals - in its own, structure, open high 18 foot
screened/
glassed/opening room - with roof that is
patio/lookout space.
Central focus of a fire circle and Hot Tub - with western
views of sunset and pool.
Roof overhangs of 6 feet for covered walkarounds on first
level. - and to provide shelter for all east.south.west glass.
Velux Skylights on Northern sloped roofs.
Maximum usage of All building materials,
Such as utilizing the foundation walls as bermed pantry,
wine cellar, basement recreation level room - or base of the
soaring great room 28 foot high library, entrance hall, living,
dining, kitchen.
Opening double wide doors - Sliding glass - with screens -
Usage of Arched doors, circular and arched windows, hand
carved doors, and of Jeld Wen.Auralast woods for interiors
Exterior and moisture temp conservatories of Milgard Vinyl.
Wooden cabinets to close off storage inset in all walls can also
utilize Jeld-Wen doors, stained glass - original patterns.-
Double Wide -Circle door motif for Entrance -
Use Arched double wide with side panels -for upper patio
door -
Light with recessed and sculptured lights - scones on walls -
ambient temple lighting.
Creative usage of light in translucent floor and wall areas.
Creative flow of water through etched cement and
tiled/marbled channels -rather than raingutters - feeding
waterfalls, fountains, and rainstorage.
Maximized usage of all walls for closed storage.
Bookshelving- closet-
Ecotimber interior woods, Oaks, Bamboos, Cherry,
Mahogany, inlays.
Exterior pillars hide storage space.
Built in seating conceals storage.
STAIRWAY exterior:
Large Nauticus type Circular stairway with marble mosaic
sunburst centered for flooring , or similar pattern in woods -
radiant heated – glassed for light -in– opening arched
casements - or combined with tile block, –marble insets in
walls - Translucent lights in walls and along pool inset in
transclucent tiles.
domed circular skylight above.
WATER temple
Dimension One Spas
Possible circular and inset into the ground with a circular
columned flat roofed/patio walkaround to circular exterior
stairs to roof patio walkarounds.
Pillars of mold formed cement dancers, and the Phoenix -
Theme of the reconstruction,
like the carved colums of Greek temples,
Formed with body sculpture molds -
Of plaster, or cement/ rastra block?
Or of Timber round collomns of the lands,
Or of criss crossed beams of some maintainence free
material.
Materials used must be placed for longevity in usage.
Woods for the interiors, of Ecotimber
Structural walls and roofs and floors by Weyerhauser
Bermed Pantries, Winerooms, and lower levels of Rastra
Block.
Uppermost slanted roof of Authentic slate like recycled roofing.
Roof Patio of Stepstone Roof Pavers
Walkaround Patios of Stepstone Cement Pavers
Ambient lighting by Malibu Solar Walklights
Rainwater collection Tanks by Funke International
D-Rainwater Tanks
Erosion Control for parking by Golpla
Recycled Plastics
Kitchen Energy Efficient Appliances by Bosch
Inset into the walls, Cabinet doors a possibility to hide all.
Kitchen sinks by Toto-
or creative slabs of clay, one of kind glass artbowls and
ceramics created for the Kitchen, bath,
Creative usages of re-cycled tiles, marbles, glass bottles in
garden art demonstration areas.
Water Saving toilets by Toto
And water systems that recycle several times prior to
becoming greywater for the garden.
Composting waterless non electric toilet by Sun-Mar
which might be set up at the Garden Yurt Site.
Bathroom Sinks, Matching Tubs, Toilets by
Americh, Zuma, Toto
Which may be incorporated in the two interior bathrooms, or
in an outdoor bathing/temple setting in the ground garden
level, or on the roof top patio.
Exterior concrete steps by Stepstone Inc.
Coping for pool, firecircles by Stepstone, Inc.
Patio Roof bedroom enclosed by sliding glass and screened area .
Skylights on Northern Sloped areas above sleeping areas.
Fireplace on west wall –living room - indoor/outdoor – at knee
level, with storage for wood beneath - hearth wide enough (
3 feet ) to lay down on.
Fireplace coiled with copper pipe as back-up for indoor bath or
outdoor hot-tub
Fireplace designed with baking chambers, and geared for
cooking. With open floor plan to kitchen and dining.
Outdoor face of fireplace facing outdoor dining area, sitting area
Bathing Swimming and hot tub
Utilize Vinyl Windows and Doors for the
indoor/outdoor/screened rooms.
In clear glassed room - Milgard Vinyl glass doors - bathroom
with Americh Jacussi tubs, inset into the ground level.
Second bath- by Zuma in largely glassed doored soaking on
roof patio level bedroom
And as an indoor/outdoor Water Bathing Temple in the
Garden, removed from the main home.
All living outdoor rooms must be enclosed by screen against
insects, rodents, raccoons, snakes, lizards, and mountain
lions.
Pool - more spectacular with endless edge to the west, and
surrounded by patio - Stepstone Pavers and Coping..
Roof surrounded with built in seating, to hide water storage
tanks, wood storage, and other underneath and in walls.
1 cement, colorized matching flooring and walls -
Rain troughs in striated cement flooring to funnel into pool
storage,
And on the roof rain barrel storage for gravity feed to pools
and hot tub refill/shower
Roof extended over walkarounds below on first floor –
Pool walkaround, roof covered – columned around pool
Outdoor shower at poolside
Main Hall Great room entrance from
entrance /side foyer/ cold room/ dramatic double door
feature - Jeld-Wen Circular Wood - or Arched Double Wide
- something dramatic/stiking.
Sconed lights on walls of stone striated colorized
cement/adobe/stone exteriors - maintainence free.
Create an Energy Room separate from the home, in a garage
which can be used as an art studio - glass doored walls to
balconies and terrace - Batteries - 8 Deka 6 volt Gel Cells -
in well ventilated area - non-burnable - cement slab floors,
stained/etched with sunburst.
Inverters, Ac and Dc Disconnects, hidden behind well
vented cabinet doors inset into wall.
The Main Great hall - Rotunda-Cathedral -Ceremonial - living
Utilizing creative triangles, circles, arches, stained and
etched glass, skylights, library.
Fireplace north or western walls for baking, cooking inbuilt
back up water heat copper coils to hot tub, and to roof hot
water tub/shower.
Interior stairway more compact wood craftsman-storage under
stairs and along walls up to windows…for ease of
movement, with landings, full heighted, or multipaned
patterned, or arched, and opening
windows.
Possible exit at stairlanding, through double door arches to
north deck cantilevered out amid the trees.
This Structure may address the four directions of light and
view, in a rotunday, circular roofed, skylighted area,
Or as a cross with light, doors, lined up to see from a central
hearth point - where can be laid marble mosaic sunburst and
the Phoenix.
Light and View and Exit out to the 4 directions
With central halls meeting in circular
Floor patterns, circular, opened, skylighted to the uppermost
level - heart central point.
Second Floor, 28 foot high room, half bermed into the
mountainside, south face, patio on flat roof open air area-
lookout to south, east, and west.
In a structure curved around the front, south face of the
mountain, the Roof Patio might be at same level as the
mountain top, extending flat usable space,
With mountain top used for outdoor fire circle in the
center/heart of the mountain top,
Surrounded by outdoor pool with endless edge to the west,
Or small temple bath and bedroom on the northeast point, or
circular outdoor stairway
To roof patio down to parking level- basement-bermed half
of great rooms on the southwest or southeast areas.
Great Room can have openbeamed roof,
flat with patio area on top,
And can be fully covered over on the roof patio by a
screened, glassed, and semi-enclosed overroof, like in
Polynesia, where the upper level is mostly open with pocket
doors that open up great areas, protected from rains,
screened against insects - semi glassed/doored with Large
Vinyl Conservatory sliding doors -
By Milgard or Jeld-Wen.
In a structure bermed into the center of the mountain top 10
feet submerged, and 18 feet extended above ground, with
covered walkabouts, Roof Patio, patially protected sleeping,
bathing, fireplace.
Pool with walls of glass block transparent -and of rastra block
for carved forms,
Body sculpture in some pillared structural walls/frescoed..
Fed by waterfalls when rains run - overflow into water
containment by
D-Raintank.
Root celler on the northernmost bermed room, next to Wine
Cellar
Natural Light from Walkouts in all 4 direction through double
wide glass doors.
Flooring some cement – colorized, striated like natural stone,
to match exterior walls, appearance of ancient stone temple
unifying – radiant floor heating – by solar panels at ground
level, or rooftop and solar pumped throughout,
For outdoor and water prone moisture areas - where marble
mosaic can be created.
Indoor floors of warm woods by Ecotimber, radiant heated
wood panels,
By Warmboards.
Wall Cabinects of Ecotimber, or etched glass doors by Jeld-Wen.
