50 Luxury Houses – Edward’s Greens

Jesus took me here in a vision
to show me what he wanted me
to build here in the Philippines

The Lord asked me to use my name in the title of this project and I’m having a hard time coming up with something I like. So ‘Edward’s Greens’ is just a working title at this stage.

So when the Lord asked me to build 50 nice houses, I argued that I wanted to make affordable housing for poor families instead he said, That is not this project. Then in a vision he asked me if I wanted to see it?

I suddenly realized I was seeing a door knob and when I opened it, I saw inside a house that looked distinctly American. I saw a single sofa seat by a floor lamp, a few steps up to a second level like in a split level bungalow, but the floor and deco was definitely not Filipino, not Hong Kong, Chinese Indian or anything Asian at all that I was familiar with out here.

But when I turned around in the vision and looked around the property I was in for a real shock because I recognized the house front yard as the place I grew up in, in Pennsylvania, when I was in first grade. This is a typical 1970’s-era suburban subdivision which you can see on the map spreads for dozens and dozens of miles.

He asked me if I can build this in the Philippines. I thought it was a trick question and said well this and well that, and he stopped me to clarify, “Build This.”

He said these houses will have an average cost of P7m. To start as soon as I find the land. And use MY NAME in the project title.

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Recently I began to study the house designs of FLW, as compared to other ‘modern’ designs and learned to distinguish our house models from typical ‘random rectangular’ designs. Our designs have a geometric freedom, are stylish and modern but never, (unless 100% purposefully as in the Brownstone models) resort to ‘repeated patterns of squares and rectangles.’

I call the series of designs I finally developed after embracing the ethos of FLW my Housewright Series of models. I have five or six but they are still in a developmental stage. Also by using steel as a frame in my latest family house project, the Lily House, I will be able to go back and redesign these models with greater spans between columns and wider open spaces, windows and etc.

Doing the first versions of FLW inspired houses in 2020 I showed a prospectus to an American man I met in the mall named George. He really just wanted someone to talk to, but it caused me to put together a nice quick brochure of this development.

I worked on this some in 2021 and when in 2022 the Lord asked me to focus on this project I revised the best models I had made the previous two years and came up with a short list of 4 or 5 usable designs and began to make final versions.

To make 5o homes, with an average price of 7m, we will target an average size of 180m2 (1,900ft2) with a few houses at roughly 120, 150, 180, 210, and 240m2. Plots will be about 1,100m2 roughly and we aim to design five to seven main design families, with units of two to three sizes in each style. Not every house model will be available in every size, and by flipping a layout, moving sections around, changing landscape grade and design we can easily make 50 totally unique homes based on seven primary design models.

EEJ-D

I can do amateur design work on these houses. I also have more knowledge and exposure than most any drafting student I know here; plus local draftsmen learn what cannot be done more than what can and have blinders from their provincial lifestyle. I can help to add vision and explain what people like me, a more typical client, wants to live in. They can however draw it better than me.

I also have more knowledge of the building code.  I will nevertheless need help to finish the house plans for the 50 house development at this time, and that is where EEJD comes in at this point.

So EEJ-D, pronounced Edge Design or EEJ-I, Edgy, or something is what I am planning on calling our design group. I call it EEJ-Design as an homage to Walter Elias because the original imagineering department was named WED Enterprises, if you know your theme park history.

They will eventually handle planning, architecture, creative design, engineering design and will someday morph into the in-house creative planning department of Imagineers for our future projects. But right now this group will begin by finalizing architectural plans for whatever has not yet been finalized, such as house designs in the 50 home development, as well as typical industrial designs within the fish farm, but then will hopefully soon include Hotel Ambassador planning, and then get into the extensive Theme Park design and new town planning that is needed.

So as for this housing estate, I have many models in the works, but nothing really finalized to the right standard or done in good renders yet. Hopefully soon.