ABSTRACT
In 2000, I was invited to design a house on an Arizona ostrich ranch. Being in the desert there would be no utilities (services); it would need to be autonomous, and make hospitable a climate inhospitable in the extreme. The consensus design process may work well with communities, but for this project, we were just four people: two clients, the executive architect and myself. As half the group would be paying for the house and living in it, fulfilling their wishes was more important than any issue of equality or group consciousness. Despite this, we worked as a roundtable consensus group. This chapter shows both how we could utilize the process structure, and how we had to modify it for these circumstances. https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
Timetable
Day 1:
Place-study & outline design
Days 2–4:
Design development
