Image above by Rachel Kao. While Europeans are no strangers to communal, urban living, evidenced by things like Baugruppen, the phenomenon is still pretty rare in North America. Cohousing, the most established form or communal living this side of the pond, tends.
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In the mid-aughts, Professor and architect Hector Perez of Woodbury University pooled together several faculty members to purchase lots of land in the Barrio Logan neighborhood in San Diego. Their hope was to create an extension to the school’s campus..
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Last week I posted about the Cheesecake Cohousing Consortium–an 11 person senior community located in Mendocino, CA. The post proved very popular, but a number of commenters remarked about the dearth of urban housing options that perform many of the.
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I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: the conversation about compact, efficient housing focuses way too much on so-called Millennials and not nearly enough on the ever-increasing numbers of older adults. Last year I reported on the joint.
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Man built most nobly when limitations were at their greatest. Frank Lloyd Wright You’d think that if we had access to boundless resources for our architecture, we would build the most amazing structures, incorporating the highest tech, the best quality,.
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The above question is one few of us feel the space to contemplate. Mortgage and rent, car payments, groceries, electric, gas, cell phone, internet, etc–the collective pool that we sum up as “bills” tends to keep us in a loop.
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While building new is nifty and all, there’s something very appealing about adaptive reuse. This is why projects like the Providence Arcade, which took an underused indoor shopping mall and converted it to a retail/micro-residential complex, are so appealing. Why.
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A big focus is put on micro-apartments when talking about compact, efficient living. There’s good reason for this we believe. By and large, the world’s populations are consolidating in the cities with limited area to build; people are increasingly more interested in living.
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The idea of sharing is palatable enough for things like power tools and even cars, but our homes? Like underwear and teeth retainers, homes are the kind of things that are best when they have clear lines of possessions. Not so says.
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We talk a lot about living a life focused less on stuff and space and more on relationships and other things that truly make us happy. The epoch in most of our lives that best embodies that way of life.
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