Initial Sketches

The concept.

What exactly are we trying to build? and what is your underlying ethos on modern architecture? I hear you ask.
Well in answer to that, I offer this readers digest version of the brief given to the architect.

Anita's perspective.

Needs to have 3 - 4 bedrooms that aren't too large.
Needs to have a number of well set out living areas that allow for people living in the same house to be completely separate from each other with out having to resort to hiding in bedrooms.
Laundry needs to be near the cloths line.
Needs to cost the same as a project home.
Who cares what it looks like?

Timothy's perspective.

All of the above with the exception of the project home budget and appearance. and with the addition of;

Needs to be solar passive
Needs to look like it was designed by Glenn Murcutt
Needs at least 3 garages
Needs to look like its design has followed its function rather than its function dictated by its design.
Needs to be in harmony with its surroundings or something like that?
Needs to be affordable in some way.
I have two children to sell ohh and at least 1 kidney.

However with every episode of grand designs i watch the above seems to become a lot less fixed