Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Construction Sequencing

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

Thanks to Chuck for making a point that can't be emphasized too much, IMO.
I'm pretty sure our CH is used more often than most, partially because our
site and houses are so compact, but mainly because it has been a part of the
fabric of this place from the get-go.

Fred, I think you have a fascinating idea. The logistics seem daunting; how
to build & pay for something while also coming up with the money (& energy)
to build a home in cohousing. But I was thinking, if you built something in
a way that it could be added onto later, it could work inexpensively. You
could build a kitchen and dining room, and add the rest after move-in. Or
you could have a temporary building, like a trailer or a yurt, on a site
that could be moved when necessary during construction.

Just a little brainstorming. Could be something great, Fred.


-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento California

http://members.home.net/southsideparkcohousing/
tamgoddess [at] home.com



> From: Fred H Olson <fholson [at] cohousing.org>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:10:12 -0500 (CDT)
> To: -cohousing-L mailing list <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_Common House Construction Sequencing
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Chuck Durret at The CoHousing Company
> coho [at] cohousingco.com wrote in the message
> http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/2001/msg01735.html :
> 
>> Some common houses are used as much as twenty times as much as others.
> 
> This suggest some standard way of measuring common house useage.
> Seems to me this would be an interesting statistic to use to compare
> communities.  Chuck, how did you compare useage?
> 
> Also Chuck, your interesting article urging building the common house at
> the same time as the individual units if at all possible (rather than
> waiting) brings to mind the possibility of building the common house
> before - maybe even well before - the individual units are built.  I have
> in mind a non-residential based intentional community here who are
> scattered over about a 6 by 10 mile area (western suburbs of Mpls).  Some
> of them would like to evolve to cohousing tho no serious discussion of it
> has happened.  They have nothing resembling a common house now, they meet
> at each others homes, public places and online.  But it occurs to me if
> they had a site that could eventually accomodate a cohousing community and
> built a common house on the site for near term use it might be a way to
> evolve toward cohousing.  Some existing use of the site that made it
> affordable would be very helpful..
> 
> Has any group built their common house significantly in advance of
> building the individual units?
> 
> Fred
> 
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