Here is a snap of our site taken during our visit last weekend. As you can see they have already begun grading. Our visit forced us to quickly redesign our prototype. We are still burning neurons in our quest for a design that meets our sustainable desires and the existing site condition. With the steep site we realize that we must plan for future retaining walls and possible terraces. For these we will likely use recycled tires, which are commonly used in Tijuana.
We also learned that the neighbors did not submit their plans to the city and their house is built a few feet past our property line. Actually I am not even sure if they have a residential building permit department in Tijuana and have not heard of any one submitting plans. People here just build to survive. We are currently working with a site that is approximately 27 feet wide by 86 feet long. We also have a change in elevation of about 10 feet.
Here are is an axon of our new design
We are currently working on the site plan and we will post it as soon as possible.
Please email us any comments or suggestions…..especially those pretaining to our design and site
July 27th, 2005 at 10:26 pm
Very nice…