- Project Type: Cohousing, Multi Family
- Location: Boulder, Colorado
Wild Sage Cohousing is a 34-unit, 1.48-acre cohousing project, established in North Boulder’s Holiday Neighborhood, a mixed-use, mixed-income, low-rise development with on-street parking and rich street frontage. The streets are tree-lined, new-urbanist success stories, where people are out on porches and connect.
Wild Sage itself is a mixed-income community: 40% of the homes are affordable through the CIty of Boulder’s inclusionary housing program, and four of those were built through a partnership with Flatirons Habitat for Humanity. Wild Sage is located across the street from Silver Sage Village Cohousing, the only example of senior and multigenerational sister communities colocated in the United States.
The community is centered on the Common House and a common green. Wild Sage’s Common House is well used, supporting Holiday Neighborhood functions and all of the events that are a part of the stream of life: poetry readings, birth classes, men’s groups, life celebrations, wakes, weddings, book groups, baby showers, and community meals.
The project features multiple sustainable measures, including optimization of roof orientation for solar panels, efficient building designs and assemblies, air-tight construction, rainwater irrigation, and bioswales. All homes face south without any compromise on community connection. Some of the homes were designed to embrace net-zero energy principles and to achieve EnergyStar 5+, and there are some shared solar thermal systems.
For more on the way Caddis has designed with nature at Wild Sage Cohousing and at other sites, read our blog post “Designing with Nature: Biodiverse Design in Caddis Projects.”