The Site

We live on a farm in the mountains of western North Carolina. Our current house is a 350 square foot cabin, built with the intention of immediately starting construction on a real house. Then came the economy. And architects are notoriously slow. Did I mention my wife and I are both architects? So our design process was doubly slow.

But back to the site. We're building on a mountain stream, on the edge of the pasture, the garden and the meadow. It will all make sense eventually. In the image above, I'm standing in the garden. Directly across the creek is the house site, with the pasture to the left and the meadow out of frame to the right. Here's another shot...

Here I'm standing in the meadow, with the house site directly ahead on the right side of the creek, the pasture beyond and the garden on the left, across the creek.  The orientation is almost due North-South following the creek.