This was our initial basic layout for the plot when we very first bought the land:
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Wyrdwood Acres Permaculture Retreat Initial Layout Plan |
Starting from the road access on the left, we will have:
Farm Market Stall for fresh produce and products with an honesty box
The first box will be parking for residents and visitors
The second blue box will be the kitchen garden which will supply annual crops to the house
Then we will have the tool shed for storage
Next is the geodome for starting seedlings and extending the growing season
The four blue boxes next are the fields that we will eventually rotate our chickens and goats in
Everything after that will be allowed to go somewhat wild as a food forest, with the classroom and yurts for visitors among the trees. We'll be running courses and workshops for visitors so the classroom area is essential for us. Each yurt will have it's own outhouse with compost toilet but the shower block and kitchen areas will be communal.
We hope that over time we'll be able to establish a living fence around the entire perimeter as a shelter belt and another source of edibles. It will be interesting to see how the layout and plan changes as we go forwards, one of the reasons we're going to be posting it all on here is so we can look back on it in the future. Hopefully we won't have too many mistakes to learn from!
Carly has painted a beautiful watercolour impression of the initial plan:
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Wyrdwood Acres Permaculture Retreat - Watercolour Layout |
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Where Wyrdwood Manor will be located on the land |
We've shared these plans before in the past, but one thing we haven't shown you all yet is what we're designing for our forever home. We already had our hearts set on building with straw bales when we moved out here and were lucky enough to find an architect that specialises in sustainable building particularly with earth and straw and with her help we have been able to create a one of a kind plan for the house. Our land is planted almost exclusively with Almonds, so we thought it was only fitting to honour the spirit of the land by drawing inspiration from the patterns in nature that are right in front of us, afterall humans are not designed to live in tidy little boxes, there are no straight lines in nature. For the shape of the main house we drew inspiration from the almond tree flowers, for the separate work studio we will build it in the shape of the almond nut:
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Design for the Almond Flower House and Almond Nut Studio |
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Wyrdwood Manor Design Layout |
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South and North Elevations of the house |
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Cross Section Of The Centre Of The House |
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3D Artists Impression |
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Work Studio |
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Studio elevations |
At the moment we have submitted plans to the town hall, they have already told us they have no problem with any of it as our architect is in constant contact with them so we expect to have our building permission back by the end of September so we can really get moving with the project physically. Now to design a kitchen garden that will be worthy of such a project!
All looking wonderful :) Look forward to following your progress
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Wow :-). That design is stunning and I can see how it will work as a beautiful family home.
ReplyDeleteWYRDwood, lol I love it. Looks good, I hope all is still going well for you guys.
ReplyDeleteLove that floorplan! You will be able to "sleep to the East," more or less. That is one of the design principles in the famous book, "A Pattern Language." If you have never read it, I recommend you find a used copy. The communal space is very good too, and shaded places to sit on the three sides, South, East, and West. I did not notice anyplace for a wood stove, though. What will you use for winter heating?
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