Sasaki-san and Yoshida-san came to 555 today to stake out the corners of the building and to show me some really meaningful measurements.
It took a few tries to get the building in the right place. I have reasons for not wanting it the typical 90 cm from the edge of the drainage – the main one being that I want the front edge of the house aligned with the side of the barn. It would make me twitch to have it a foot out of line; that was hard to explain, but I got what I wanted. The house will be placed 210 cm from the north ujiko and 210 cm from the west ujiko, which makes it about 4 meters from the garden and a nice wide swath on the east side.
And then we talked about other dimensions. We didn’t just talk. Sasaki-san demonstrated for me some of the hard to visualise points: the height of the building; the angle of the roof; the height of the ceilings. It’s really good to see it sketched out in 1:1 scale then put together and hoisted into the sky.
