ABSTRACT
Starting your ecohouse design with a blank piece of paper in front of you, is an exciting experience – all those endless possibilities! But coming up with the ‘right’ design for you, that is fit for your own purposes, that makes good use of all the opportunities that your site and budget have to offer, is what lies at the heart of what constitutes ‘good’ design. This chapter first outlines how you might approach the writing of a good brief and what is involved in developing your project programme. Then some of the issues that might influence the way the actual form of your house begins to take shape in your mind are raised as a precursor to the detailed chapters that follow it.
