{"id":70,"date":"2003-09-02T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lalato.com\/wp\/?p=70"},"modified":"2011-05-08T01:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T07:09:23","slug":"re-learning-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/re-learning-geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Learning Geometry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whew&#8230;  yesterday was great.  I learned how to mark a site with the footprint of a house.  There were so many things about a house that I had never considered before.  It&#8217;s relationship to the surrounding countryside, the tree line, the sun, available shade and prevailing winds.<\/p>\n<p>Once that was figured out&#8230;  it was a matter of understanding what the most important activities were in a house.  For me, it was lounging&#8230;  of course.  My favorite activity, for those that don&#8217;t know me well, is to sit in a comfy chair and do a bit of nothing.  Mmmmm&#8230;  Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, since my home idea would be based on lounging, I had to arrange all of the pieces I wanted in my home in such a way that lounging would be the centerpiece&#8230; and everything else would supplement it.<\/p>\n<p>Then&#8230; after taking measurements of my site and the various natural features around it, I placed my building where I thought it should go.  After my 10th revision, I, with the help of one of the instructors, realized that the shape I was working with didn&#8217;t do what I really needed it to do&#8230;  so I played with shape for a bit, until I stumbled upon a parallelogram.  Very cool.  Now my building concept is an elongated parallelogram jutting out from the side of a hill with a berm protecting it from roadside noise and forming a natural courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll learn to today if my plan is workable, but even if it isn&#8217;t I have learned quite a bit from the process.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whew&#8230; yesterday was great. I learned how to mark a site with the footprint of a house. There were so many things about a house that I had never considered before. It&#8217;s relationship to the surrounding countryside, the tree line, the sun, available shade and prevailing winds. Once that was figured out&#8230; it was a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalato.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}