Building a house on Lakeside Court.
Information about construction, energy, power, conservation. As well as the occasional photograph and outlandish dream. (See what's new to track changes.) This is a guide for ourselves, our friends, but most importantly our architects and contractors. It is a history of the house building project as well as a working document on our plans and our questions that we need to resolve as we move forward. To simplify keeping up to date with changes, the original page has been subdivided into six pages. Each may be reached from the others.
Contents
Where does a Californian who loves everything aquatic and loves another Californian who loves Evanston want to live? In Evanston, but on the lake: Lakeside Court. This page is meant as a dynamic set of links to chronicle the building of our house and the information that we are gathering in cooperation with Ellen Galland of Rockwell Associates. It is meant to help the various people involved in constructing our house to understand the alternative decisions that need to be considered. These pages will be evolving as we move forward and should be consulted frequently.
Several considerations that are driving the design of the house are 1) the location (facing Lake Michigan), 2) life style considerations and 3) the need to be minimize the environmental impact as much as is reasonably possible. This last consideration focuses on issues of size (the "not so big house" concept) as well as general environmental concerns and energy efficiency. (Recognizing that building is itself not very environmentally friendly, the question becomes how to reduce the impact of a new house.)
The current house was built in 1952 in the North East corner of Evanston. We hope to start (and finish) construction in 2002.
version of December 28, 2001
As is true of all web pages, this is part of a constantly growing set of pages. If working off of a printed copy, it is useful to look at the date of the last version. As changes are added to the various pages on, the "What's New" page will track changes.
Prepared by William Revelle. Comments to W. Revelle