This is looking down the driveway during the summer of 97 before we started construction. At the end of the driveway there is a clearing and a steep hill. The view is to the west. I climbed up a tree with a ladder as far as I could go and could see across the Connecticutt river valley. We decided to build a tall house.
Here's a picture of the house just after is was bulit but before the site work was
done. I'm standing on a big pile of dirt. The left side of the house faces 15 degrees
east of due south and with all the windows on that side we get alot of solar gain
in the winter. So not only is there a walk-out basement under the porch but we decided
to build a big dormer on the third (fouth?) floor as well.
Click here for more pictures of the house.
Down the hill is Dean Brook. All the land to the south and west on our side of Sand Hill Road was purchase by the town of Amherst for watershed preservation. Here's a topographic map showing the first half mile of Sand Hill Road.
To view the model first make sure you have QuickDraw 3D installed. The latest version (1.54) is now part of QuickTime v3.available for PowerMacs and Pentium-class Wintels at this site:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/index.html
You can download the 3D model directly to your hard drive and use a QuickDraw 3D viewer (such as SimpleText) to view the file. The file is about 1MB and will take about 5 minutes to download over a modem.
Mac
version of the file: house-2.3dmf.hqx