Terreno · método
Sheet 02 of 08 — approach
Rev C · 2026
02 · Approach
Key · one set covers
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House
GA + details
Perimeter wall
Lime, 2.1 m
Water
Pool + cistern
Planting
Dry, unirrigated
01
Survey the ground first
Levels, soil depth, prevailing wind, every existing tree, the cadastral boundary as built rather than as filed.
Topographic survey 1:500
Tree schedule
Soil cores ×6
2 weeks
02
Draw the whole plot
House, perimeter wall, pool, irrigation and planting on the same sheets at the same scale. Nothing gets added later.
Plot set 1:200
Measured model
Planting plan
8–12 weeks
03
Build it with our own crews
Masons, groundworkers and planters on one contract, so a change to the wall is a change to the drawing, not a dispute.
One contract
Monthly site set
Fixed price
9–14 months
04
Hand over the as-built set
Measured drawings of what is actually in the ground, plus a planting calendar for the first three summers.
As-built set
Planting calendar
3-summer check-ins
Day one
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Scale
1:200 @ A1
Typical duration
14 months
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03 · Selected work
Plate 01 · as built
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Parcela 07 · Vejer de la Frontera
640 m² · 2024
Featured · completed October 2024
A walled parcel on a windward slope
The levante wind rules this site. The perimeter wall came first — lime over local block, 2.1 m — and everything else was drawn inside the shelter it makes. The pool sits below grade so its surface never catches the wind.
Planting is entirely unirrigated after the second summer.
640 m²
Plot area
14 mo
Survey to handover
2.1 m
Lime wall height
0 m²
Irrigated lawn
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Showing 4 of 34 · Cádiz province · 2015–2025
04 · Materials
Breathes, self-heals hairline cracks, and goes warmer rather than grey as it weathers.
Colour is mixed through, never painted on, so a chipped corner is the same colour as the wall.
Heavy, cheap, local. The mass keeps the house within four degrees of its overnight temperature through August.
Every path and terrace. Permeable, so the rain that falls on the plot stays on the plot.
Roof and terrace runoff feeds the cistern; the cistern feeds the pool and the first two summers of planting. After that the garden is on its own.
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−1.80 m
40 km
Furthest quarry
5
Materials specified
40 m³
Rain held per plot
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06 · Start a plot study
Location plan
Península ibérica · 1:4 500 000
Cádiz province only
34 plots · 2015–2025
07 · Queries
Q-01
No. The plot study is a standalone piece of work and you own the drawings outright. Around a third of our studies are built by someone else — we would rather the plot be drawn once properly than not at all.
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Q-02
€4 800 for a plot under 1 500 m², fixed, including the survey. It is refunded in full against the build contract if you go ahead with us.
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Q-03
Not at all, provided they are willing to draw to the same levels we do. We take the house as given and resolve everything outside it against their sections.
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Q-04
After two summers on cistern water, yes. Everything we plant is native or naturalised to this coast, set out at densities that let each plant find its own water. Nothing is on a timer.
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Q-05
Rarely, and only within a day’s drive. Our crews are our own and our quarries are local — past 40 km both of those advantages disappear and you would be better served by someone nearer.
Case by case
Q-06
It gets drawn before it gets built. Every change is issued as a revised sheet with its own cost, signed by you — which is slower than a conversation on site, and considerably cheaper.
Closed
Q-07
Studies start within a month. Builds are running to spring 2027 — we hold four plots on site at a time and no more, because that is how many our own crews can cover properly.
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