Re: Design Process: Call for experiences | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: School of Mathematics, U of MN (depts5.math.umn.edu) | |
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 11:49 CST |
On Fri, 11 Nov 94 11:11 CST, Lee Haring <cohousing-l [at] uci.com> wrote: >Cantine's Island group of Saugerties, New York, is having a rewarding experienc >e working with the architect we hired, Raym ReRis of Belmont, Massachusetts. Co >mmitted to modular housing, we quickly realized that a designer sympathetic to >groups and to cohousing was going to be needed to mediate between what modular >manufacturers offer and the individual needs of our twelve households. As work >goes on, costs keep going up. The trend worries us. We might even lose some sta >unch members of the group if costs keep ascending. Some of the rise in costs is > attributable to using an architect at all. But he is zealous about helping us >keep costs down. Where the project will suffer is in the common house. It will >not be the huge, sumptuous, capacious refuge some of us dreamed of. Instead it >will have to be added to in future years. > > > Monterey CoHousing-Mpls is at a similar stage and I too am worried about the cost of our architect. Especially the benefit/cost ratio. Personally, I doubt he is worth the money we have already paid him, and we're not done yet with final drawings. We were lucky in having a member with a background in architecture (a former student) and she sat down with the various households to come up with a design to suit their needs. It would have cost a heap to pay the architect for that. Anybody like that in your group? Monika Stumpf, Monterey CoHousing-Mpls, dept [at] math.umn.edu
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Re: Design Process: Call for experiences Rob Sandelin, November 9 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences Lee Haring, November 11 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences School of Mathematics, U of MN, November 11 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences Stephen Hawthorne, November 11 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences shedrick coleman, November 11 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences JoycePlath, November 13 1994
- Re: Design Process: Call for experiences Nancy E Wight, November 15 1994
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