Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: PattyMara (PattyMaraaol.com) | |
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:20:29 -0700 (MST) |
In a message dated 2/11/00 5:30:23 PM chris [at] cohousingresources.com writes: << I don't think the cost of private unit design... the economic, social, community, and emotional costs... provides us as individual households with anything close to the benefit that we romantically imagine. It certainly does nothing positive for the community. In fact, it can be argued that it is often destructive. >> Dear Chris and list, At Tierra Nueva (central CA coast) our core group of 8 households spent too much time and energy designing and redesigning and doing cost cuts when the numbers came in on our individual units. Chris is right, many of us ended up in different units, and some of us didn't even make it to the finish line. One of the 3 bedroom designs has a longer luxurious bathtub because of a tall household who insisted on it, then later moved to another unit. The question of letting an architect team do the design of private home is intriguing to me. It would require a deep trust in the professionals. Always a good thing when it is forged, and encouraged by good communication. I wonder if we could have let go of the control? One of the perceived perks was that we could be involved in home design, but it did end up to be more of an albatross around our necks in many ways. In truth, when all of our community was assembled after the last few months of sales, during early construction, the majority of our 27 households had had no design input. Less than a third of us designed all the units. And of the original core group, two households dropped out, one got divorced and 3 changed unit size. Another "cost" to add to Chris' list: the focus on the individual units took our attention away from the common house design, which ended up with some unfortunate features, like a woefully small children's room, designed by architects with no children. I've heard the phrase "What were you thinking when you approved this design of ________?" We were overwhelmed by a myriad of details, distracted and generally out of our league trying to wear too many hats. I like the idea of letting the architects do their work, and letting us do the work and play and partying of building community. coheartedly, patty mara gourley Tierra Nueva, cen CA coast
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Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question Chris ScottHanson, February 11 2000
- Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question lance millward, February 11 2000
- Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question PattyMara, February 11 2000
- Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question Berrins, February 12 2000
- Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question Ann Zabaldo, February 12 2000
- Fw: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question Lydia & Ray Ducharme, February 12 2000
- Re: Private Unit Design - a cost/benefit question Robert Wiener, February 13 2000
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