Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cohousing in former school [was: Retrofit

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Aug 5, Bud Tillinghast htilling [at] sbcglobal.net  wrote:

> I would be interested to know if any cohousing project has done a
> retrofit of an elementary school building. There is falling
> enrollment here in Eureka, California and some school facilities
> are likely to come up on the market.

In 1999 when 8 of us from the US visited cohousing in Denmark,
we visited a community that was under development in a fairly modern
school building (from 1960' or 70's?).  It's called
Gundsolille Cohousing in Roskilde, DK.  As I recall they were doing much
of the renovation work themselves.  We have some pictures (the "DK99" trip
pictures are not currently available on the web - we'll get them back
up one of htese times. I think I have some audio tape somewhere.
As I recall a few folks were living in the building when we were there
but I'm unsure about that.

What would be interesting, would be to get back in touch and see how it
worked out since then.

BTW the term "retrofit cohousing" is used to refer to cohousing developed
in existing housing with little or no rebuilding - retrofitting the use
not the structures.  I know it's a bit confusing.

Fred

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