ASV: The Setting

January 2021, Cave Creek Canyon, looking SW from our property.

Looking east, garage only. Note all the other buildings are turned to face the canyon view. My garage is oriented to the cardinal directions NSEW. Portal Creek bed in middle distance.

Most recent Google Earth image shows new dome location, nascent walls on house, vigas and trusses lying on the ground. The reason the garage (green roof) is oriented NSEW is that its passive solar design demands that. I did, however, rotate the house about ten degrees toward the canyon, which oughtn’t to compromise the passive solar functioning too much.

Next most recent Google Earth image, where I had just started to dig the footer trenches.

Portion of ASV including our four acres.

Aerial view showing lot lines. They’re all 4-acre lots. Only the garage in this photo. House is NNW of garage. I think the color indicates a flood risk zone. Ironically because we are 100% off-grid solar, there is somebody else’s power line running diagonally UL to LR across our lot; the pole is visible near the lot center point.