Tutorial 1 Minutes-Battersea 5
Different aspects of our designs included:

• sleeping underground where it is cooler
• as low tech as possible
• shading, eaves
• lightwell-natural light
  
• nestle into a hill, earth
• open plan
• single-story-max roof space to collect water or to house solar panels
• isolate an internal courtyard

From the ideas that came up in the tutorial, we came up with the follwing principles that must be taken into account for next weeks design:

• built against a man-made earth mound
• sleeping area nestled against a hill/carved out of the hill
• large open plan for living spaces, could include an internal courtyard
• large areas of roof-outside sppaces can be under a canopy that is also used to collect water
• large eaves
• natural light and solar panels
• house 3 people and 2 guests
• solar power as well as a back up resource
  

For the next tutorial we must also take into account the wind conditions, rainfall, temperature and sunlight of the site as well as finding out the average water usage per person per day. Using this information, we must create a large enough roof space to collect this water and store near the building.
The following site contains information on annual rainfall, temperature and wind speed
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_003006.shtml