tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769293967422125992011-07-31T15:55:19.794+12:00The road to our new house in Glen Massey has many curves and goes up, up, up. Well, that's about the summary of the design proces...john van zeistnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76929396742212599.post-172532673945001162009-09-22T13:28:00.008+12:002009-09-22T14:17:01.260+12:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SrgqPKYiBgI/AAAAAAAAAQE/JbdZfGT-o-I/s1600-h/front+%C2%A9John+van+Zeist+2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SrgqPKYiBgI/AAAAAAAAAQE/JbdZfGT-o-I/s400/front+%C2%A9John+van+Zeist+2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384099794495079938" /></a><br /><br /><br />We've chosen to make this house fit in it's environment as a rock, that had always been there. In the side of one of the hills, not on top, as we don't want to ruin the curving lines of the Waikato landscape.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SrgqDACcZBI/AAAAAAAAAP8/hyhfxVm0OB4/s1600-h/back+%C2%A9John+van+Zeist+2009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SrgqDACcZBI/AAAAAAAAAP8/hyhfxVm0OB4/s400/back+%C2%A9John+van+Zeist+2009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384099585559651346" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/76929396742212599-17253267394500116?l=housinglenmassey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>john van zeistnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76929396742212599.post-91683831351824051502008-06-17T11:36:00.002+12:002008-06-17T11:45:06.921+12:00Well, it was just to adjust to the soft curvy hills that this shape was starting to expose itself and the next thing you know is that The Hobbit is actually being filmed. Quite a nice coincidence, but if this will be the final design?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SBsWSdF4XdI/AAAAAAAAALY/hO54w1nFdrY/s1600-h/HOBBIT+EVO+john+van+zeist.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_qZYySzO6y3E/SBsWSdF4XdI/AAAAAAAAALY/hO54w1nFdrY/s320/HOBBIT+EVO+john+van+zeist.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195771101404749266" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/76929396742212599-9168383135182405150?l=housinglenmassey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>john van zeistnoreply@blogger.com0