Secure Play Area
View above shows secure play area & porches. Homeowners can share watching children or seniors. Visually the play area becomes ground level, whats directly below can not be seen, therefore it feels like a property on a hillside overlooking the main street. It becomes a year-round tropical hanging garden for any climate. At street level,it could be cool like creek canyons in hot desert climates or top closed for warmth in cold climates.
Neighborhood Cluster of 16 homes, play-area viewed from front rooms & porches. Pool on hillside for noise control. Stair-stacking 3 Clusters allows direct light from sky above each play area and adjacent homes. Compact arrangement & sound barriers for totally private sites and short distances for utilities, etc.
Visualize a BETTER CHOICE than sprawl:
You walk through your home to your front porch overlooking the play area and the main street beyond. As you walk next to the play area one of your favorite neighbor kids runs up to tell you about her big brother's latest project, her grandfather watching from a bench on the edge of the lawn waves and greets you with today's bit of humor as you all burst into laughter. The glass elevator pierces angled streams of sunlight interrupted occasionally by tree branches as it drops to the main street level. You watch as the fast approaching image grows larger of a friend sorting through some fresh vegetables and you rehearse the bit of humor you are anxious to whisper as you will casually walk behind him. He knocks over three giant purple eggplants that also seem to enjoy your loud burst of laughter with multiple erratic bounces. It is a delightful stroll as you walk to the local branch on your favorite food market, ...past splashing fountains, displays of neighbors' newest artistic efforts and nodded greetings to friends at the sidewalk cafe of your extended neighborhood . The grocer spots you coming and already has a smile on his face in anticipation of your latest story. He knows your likes and mentions one of your favorite items that just went on special sale. Your purchases are sent directly to your home, ...the hot, cold or normal cabinet, giving you the freedom to join a group at your favorite sidewalk cafe who are planning this week's street dance. You return home to watch one of your family in a boat race from your back yard. You water your garden, pull a few weeds, an check your tree for the ripest peach. A spectacular sunset is forming, you can hear cow bells as they are moving to form a line to the barn in the pasture beyond the lake; deer grazing among the trees along the edge of the lake look up as a flock of noisily quacking ducks splash down near by. Your home overlooking the back yard is like being in the country, far away from the city, totally private; for all practical purposes you could be on your own private hill, ...no other home in sight. You watch the sunset, get the candles ready, arrange the patio chairs and open a bottle of red wine in preparation for those soon to arrive expecting dinner.
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View below shows a group of shops on main street with a Three-Cluster arrangement in the background. Each home can be a different design. The top Cluster's play area is seen on top of the cantilevered arches. The mid level play area is where the arches meet the column. The lower play area is at street level. A 100' wide space between and beyond the play areas provides horizontal views to the sky from a postion farther down the street. A pedestrian walking between the shops and street trees would only ocassionally be aware of the homes set so far back from the street. The homes are like swallows nest suspended from great protective sculptural cliffs similar to those protecting the Anasazi settlements.
The view on the right shows one half of the home sites of a cluster overlooking the secure play area and the main street below.
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