H138b: The design changes from the previous version (Grass Valley) are:
Flipped the entire plan left to right. This is because the site’s main view is now towards the west instead of the east.
Moved the main components of the south module (living module) in an attempt to maximize the west view (mountains). - Moved the master bedroom to the south of the module. - Rotated the office in order to fit the bedroom in. - Widened the cutout of the west module wall to maximum. This narrowed the width of the dirt flowing down the “front” of the module (not too desirable). - There is still a significant amount of occlusion by the office of the view, it sticks out quite a ways into the module.
In order to gain as much south exposure as possible, the house is aligned with the office corner being due south, thus the walls off of it are SE and SW orientated (45 degrees from due north-south).