Rural Networks

STEEPROCK JOINTERY Saw Pit, CO

THE

A venture in living and work Wood * Met al * Compost * Sun

STEEPROCK JOINTERY

THE

A privately owned property from which a locally owned design build firm operates. All power is generated on site through a solar array backed up by a biodeisel generator. Radiant wood heats living spaces.

Wood and Metal shops support the field crews Employees are permitted to erect and live in primitive shelters on the 35 acre site.

This permission is conditional based on the employees willingness to contribute to the betterment of the place.

Wood

Growing Food

Metal Power Generation

Housing Infrastructure

PHASE 1

The occupation on to and the eventual atrophy off of the landscape adheres to loose geometric patterns informed by territory, distance, and attraction.

PHASE 2

The occupation begins with a woodshop, a solar panel and a cabin. There is a place to live, a place to work, and a means to power tools.

From here work is sought out in the local community. With growing rapport and Increasing work. The occupation expands through the introduction of employees.

Offered work and incentivized with the opportunity to build yurts, cabins, and tepees. Employees slowly begin to gather.

A metalshop is built.

Expanding success, coupled with an increase in the scope of work, leads to a greater numbers of employees living both on and off of the site. Wives and boyfriends join their partners in living on the property.

After work people garden.

Over time work slows down. People move on. The business model changes.

PHASE 3

PHASE 4

GOLD CREEK Alta Lakes, CO

Designed and Built by Steeprock Builders 2008

Cascadia Occupation & Territory Urban Network as Regional Development

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Study Points 60 Miles

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Attractive Points

San Juan Mountains Dispersed Connectivity Nodal Centers in a Settled Landscape

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Study Points 5 Miles

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Attractive Points

1. Ouray

2. Sawpit

3. Telluride

scaled 1”: 1 mile

Local Urban Conditions

4. Ophir

5. Silverton

6. Durango

scaled 1”: 1 mile

Local Urban Conditions

8. Port Angeles 7. Port Townsend

scaled 1”: 1 mile

Local Urban Conditions

9. Clallam Bay

scaled 1”: 1 mile

10. Neah Bay

Local Urban Conditions

11. Mapleton

12. Veneta

13. Eugene

scaled 1”: 1 mile

Local Urban Conditions