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Three-Wing Octagonal House

I have always wanted to design, build (read: have somebody build), and live in an octagonal house. In 2002, I sat down with a basic vector drawing program and designed one.

However, that original design didn’t age well. When I started reevaluating it I realized that I hadn’t defined any sizes, certain things just wouldn’t work, and so on. So, in the early days of 2005, I redid my plan mostly from scratch (though the new one has many of the same features as the first) and in a more flexible format. The result is a large, pleasantly organized single-family home well suited to Melissa’s and my needs with plenty of flexibility for any additional future family members, guests, and so on.

Three-Wing Octagonal House (PDF).

In addition to what you see in the above PDF, I have some interesting technical plans. Being a nerd, the house will be very, very high-tech—high speed business-class networking (wired & wireless), power redundancy through line power augmented with solar and/or wind power, steel frame for protection from earthquakes and hurricanes and other disasters, and more.

Should be expensive ;-).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.