dear Richard, well may your entire home be a Zone of Tranquility (-: thanks for another lovely photo.
On Friday, October 11, 2013 2:45 PM, Richard Williams <pundits...@gmail.com> wrote: 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/ 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: > > > > > > >http://www.mysanantonio.com/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. > >
