Site Design

The Housing Cluster

The houses at Hundredfold Farm are to be clustered in order to preserve agricultural land, optimize solar access, minimize environmental impacts, and to encourage resident interaction.  A common house exists on the property that will be expanded to include office space, quiet sitting areas, a large eating/meeting area, guest bedrooms, and a professional grade kitchen.  The houses will be built into a south-facing hillside thereby providing shelter from northerly winter storms, while maximizing views, solar gain and the thermal buffering of the earth.  A “green road,” a pervious surface that will allow rainwater to be absorbed through its surface, will create a safe pedestrian corridor within the cluster.  Emergency vehicles will have access to the houses via this pathway. The majority of parking will be integrated into the woodlands in order to remove vehicles from view.  The six-acre housing cluster is surrounded by 74 acres of open space, native woodland, and agricultural land.

Our site plan also features:

• Potential for remodeling of exiting outbuildings as meeting space and workshops
• Access for all to a spectacular 180^o panoramic view of the nearby lowlands.
• An organic design and doesn’t force itself into the site, but that flows with the topography
• Use of vegetation and natural forms to control erosion from storm water run-off, and to aid groundwater replenishment
• Preservation of identified sacred spaces.