We are thinking about a modest home - one with an interior courtyard garden for the Zone of Tranquility.
Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/<http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html> [image: Inline image 2] Spanish style house exterior courtyard front door: http://www.cococozy.com/2010/06/see-this-house-spanish-revived-for.html On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Share Long <sharelon...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ** > > > Thanks, Richard, nice topic. You may remember that some of the FF vastu > homes are made of straw bales; some off the grid; some just eco friendly. I > love this idea of building in harmony with the surrounding land. > > > > > On Friday, October 11, 2013 10:40 AM, Richard Williams < > pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Years ago I was very impressed with the home designs of Buckminiter > Fuller. I once visited Colorado to see solar, self sufficient homes. > > http://www.livingearthconstruction.com/ > > There's a nice house in San Antonio designed by the famous architect > O'neil Ford: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > http://www.mysanantonio.com/outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php<http://www.mysanantonio.com/real_estate/article/Spaces-Bringing-the-outside-in-in-an-O-Neil-Ford-1369441.php> > > Several years ago we drove up to Fairfield to look at some of the vastu > designed homes. I've also looked at homes that employ Asian Feng Shui > designs and we drove to New Mexico and Arizona to look around at places > that have a Southwest design. > > According to what I've read, there's a lady down in Brazil that is > building her house out of concrete. Has anybody ever wondered how much > their home weighs? Go figure. > > Most people don't get to design their own dwelling - they buy or rent > already built homes or apartments. I know a guy up in Austin that lives in > a daub and wattle shack out on the road to erewhon - ever since his wife > left him he does't even care about where he throws his dirty socks. LoL! > > So, Rita and I are designing our own house. It's going to be based on > Yaqui Vastu principles. It's not complicated. > > The first thing you have to do is find a suituable place to build and then > follow the natural flow of the physical terrain, so that you find a good > balance of man-made and the natural landscape. The second thing you have to > do is decide on pier and beam, or slab foundation. It's all about placement > and positioning. > > So, what is Yaqui Vastu? > > Yaqui Vastu teaches alignment, placement, and the relationship of physical > space in relation to man and nature. How we build our homes and how we set > up the interior of our shelters has a dramatic impact on our way of living. > > An essential part of any vastu living home is a zone of tranquility. > > > >
