The real design happens once the group is formed.
THE IDEA
At the Portland Cohousing Conference held in June 2019, one of the “forming community” workshops challenged us to create a one sentence vision. As the owner of a small farm in the Puyallup valley, mine was: “Beautiful farm seeking cohousing group to ensure long term stewardship of the land…”
Chuck Durrett of McCamant and Durrett Architects was engaged to perform a feasibility study, and visited the property in November, 2019. His recommendation was that the property could host both a ~25 unit intergenerational cohousing community and a ~20 unit senior cohousing community.
The only thing lacking was a core group of cohousers to bring the dream to reality!
Above is a drawing of one way such a project might lay out.
