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Urban Cohousing: Eight Case Studies
With the desire to conserve land, water, and energy, enjoy walkable neighborhoods, and support efficient urban transit systems, more and more cohousing communities are springing up in cities across North America. Our “Cohousing Case Studies” report features eight urban communities. We were involved with the development of two of the communities: Germantown Commons Cohousing in Nashville and Silver Sage Village Cohousing in Boulder.
Understanding a Housing Development Budget
Confused by the relationship between the sale prices of the homes and the mixed composition of your cohousing community’s development budget? In this post, Caddis Collaborative provides a graphic you can use to understand this concept and to communicate with prospective members.
Listening to Residents: Community Engagement as Part of Good Design
Good community engagement means drawing folks out to be heard – before putting pencil to paper. Using fun and effective tools in addition to lightly facilitated open dialogue yields great results. In a project we designed for Boulder Housing Partners, we engaged kids and adults in play-like exercises to explore options.
Memel, South Africa: What Else Can Happen When You’re Building Homes
In 2012, Caddis Collaborative was hired to design a cohousing project in Memel, South Africa, and cohousing-inspired dwellings in the nearby black township of Zamani. Principal architect Bryan Bowen traveled to Memel and Zamani several times and became immersed in both communities, and over the years other Caddis staff have become involved with numerous community projects in Memel and Zamani.
Bryan Bowen Wins Green Building Leadership Award
Caddis Collaborative is delighted to announce that principal architect Bryan Bowen has won the Colorado Green Building Guild’s Leadership Initiative Award for 2019. [...]
Woodward Park City Featured in SketchUp Blog
Caddis Collaborative senior architect Kelly Siu was interviewed by Michelle White at SketchUp to discuss how we used the program to model Woodward Park City.
Woodward Park City
Update January 11, 2018: Woodward Park City was approved unanimously Tuesday night by Summit County! The 52,000-square-foot, year-round action sports recreation center and training facility will be built at Gorgoza Park, Utah. Designed to accommodate people at all skill levels, Woodward Park City will include both indoor and outdoor features, including snowboarding and skiing, terrain parks, tubing, trampolines, foam pits, skate ramps, parkour area, and more.
Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center
Congratulations to Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center on the unanimous approval by Boulder County Commissioners of their Limited Impact Special Review (LISR).
Affordable Housing: Radio Story with KGNU
KGNU, a community radio station for the Boulder area, talked to Caddis Collaborative principal architect Bryan Bowen about the housing crisis in ski towns.
Affordable Housing in Ski Towns and Possible Solutions
Many economic and housing pressures face ski towns, as wealthy buyers move in and workers are displaced. Caddis is committed to helping these ski towns succeed in their efforts to provide affordable housing. We are a company full of snow enthusiasts and we want to keep our ski towns ski towns!
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