For Lily: me working old-fashioned like. Also note the 'wireless' playing in the background.
Roof Type 1: Flat, falling back to courtyard.
Roof Type 2: Low folds, falling to box gutters.
Roof Type 3: High folds, falling to box gutters at perimeter.
Roof Type 4: PREFERRED. One fold up, one fold down, opens out to view and compresses over kitchen, falls to box gutters at perimeter and fold line.
As Lily and I were discussing yesterday, what we've set up here is not the conventional 'architect-client' relationship where I 'sell' my designs on you, but a collaboration. So ordinarily this would go straight in the bin, but I know you won't freak out and think I've lost it, so here it is. And just in case you are, read this big disclaimer:"To make a plan is to determine and fix ideas.I thought this was a really nice quote that fits well with your response to seeing the plan. The thing that pleased me the most about your comments was not that you liked it - which of course is great- but that you understood what it meant without my needing to explain it. I was amazed at how accurately you understood the subtlety of what i was trying to get across just through the arrangement of lines on a page, and that those lines could summarise so much of our ongoing conversation.
It is to have had ideas.
It is so to order these ideas that they become intelligible, capable of execution and communicable. It is essential therefore to exhibit a precise intention, and to have had ideas in order to be able to furnish oneself with an intention. A plan is to some extent a summary like an analytical contents table. In a form so condensed that it seems as clear as crystal and like a geometric figure, it contains an enormous quantity of ideas and the impulse of an intention."- Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, 1923
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