Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Laura Fitch (lfitchkrausfitch.com) | |
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 12:41:40 -0800 (PST) |
N street model is certainly how i referred to it for years. Laura On Sunday, December 8, 2013, Kathy Kelly wrote: > > How about the "N Street Model"? It's such a great story (and model)! > Kathy Kelly > Coyote Crossing Coho > Santa Cruz, CA > > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Kevin Wolf <kevin [at] > wolfandassociates.com<javascript:;> > >wrote: > > > > > Hi Cohousing Activists, > > > > I just finished speaking at the UK Cohousing Network's special conference > > on Retrofit Cohousing. They invited me because N Street Cohousing is a > > premier example of how existing homes can be converted over time into a > > vibrant cohousing community. We have grown to 20+ houses and around 60 > > adults in the 25 years we have considered ourselves a cohousing > community. > > > > One thing that came out of this excellent event is the awareness that > there > > are problems with the word "retrofit" to describe what N Street and other > > similar types of communities are doing. We found out that people did not > > attend because they thought it was about retrofiting existing buildings > > into built choosing, similar to Doyle Street and Swans Market Cohousing > > here in CA. > > > > The word retrofit also doesn't describe the many ways in which "non > built" > > cohousing can develop and evolve. "Built" cohousing is defined as all > the > > units coming on line more or less at the same time as one project. > > > > One of the speakers at the UK conference described her group's effort to > > buy homes in an inexpensive neighbourhood near Cardiff and evolve that > into > > cohousing in the years to come. Few of the members would have contiguous > > homes. They'd like to buy a home near the entrance to the neighbourhood > and > > convert it into a common house with possible use as a cafe during the day > > to help pay for it. It might also be rented out for non members to use as > > well. It is a different strategy to achieve the same goals as all of us > > want to achieve in our cohousing communities. In my opinion, the goals > we > > are pursuing are more important than the specific means by which we > achieve > > them, and the core elements of a cohousing community are a common house > and > > the gifting of our time cooking meals for each other. > > > > So after the conference a few of us met for dinner and came up with a new > > proposed word to describe the type of cohousing the grows over time and > is > > not built all at once - Neighborhood Cohousing. We considered words > like > > Evolving Cohousing or Starting Small Cohousing but like the robustness > of > > the word Neighborhood and all the potential in it. > > > > By the way, N Street member houses have been spreading out over our > > neighborhood with five of them no longer being contiguous and one of them > > at least a block away, and a long time Friend of the Community (one of > our > > FOCers) lives a few blocks away. > > > > We'd like to spark a discussion with the U.S cohousing community on > whether > > we should change from the word Retrofit to Neighborhood or another word > to > > define N Street types of cohousing from communities as being different > from > > cohousing communities that are built all at once from retrofitted old > > buildings. > > > > Thank you for weighing in. > > > > Kevin > > N Street Cohousing co-founder > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > > -- Laura Fitch, AIA, LEED-BD+C Kraus-Fitch Architects 110 Pulpit Hill Rd. Amherst, MA 01002 lfitch [at] krausfitch.com Board Member, Cohousing Association of US www.cohousing.org
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing, (continued)
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing Mariana Almeida, December 11 2013
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing Karen Scheer, December 12 2013
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing Chris ScottHanson, December 11 2013
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing Laura Fitch, December 8 2013
- Re: "Neighborhood" Cohousing or "Retrofit" Cohousing Four Cat House, December 8 2013
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