Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods
In this session, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally.
Sponsored by Vectorworks, Inc. | Presented by Charles Durrett
Webinar On-Demand
In this session, you will learn from the leading architect and builder of cohousing globally. Durrett will impart his decades of experience so that you understand what cohousing is, how it’s designed, what its benefits are to the residents, and how it incorporates participatory design to promote more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable communities.
Photo courtesy of Charles Durrett
FrogSong Cohousing, Cotati CA: A High-Functioning Cohousing Neighborhood.
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Charles Durrett is an architect, author, and advocate of affordable, socially responsible and sustainable design. He has made major contributions to community-based architecture and cohousing. Charles has designed over 50 cohousing communities in North America and has consulted on many more around the world. He also designed an equal number of affordable housing projects. He is the principal architect at The Cohousing Company, based in Nevada City, California. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, New York Times, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Architecture, Architectural Record, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and a wide variety of other publications. |
Vectorworks, Inc. is an award-winning design and BIM software provider serving the architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Creating intuitive software since 1985, we’ve become the preeminent software built to manage the entire design process. Globally more than 685,000 users are creating, connecting and influencing the next generation of design with Vectorworks on Mac and Windows. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in Newbury and London, England and Vancouver, Canada, Vectorworks is a part of the Nemetschek Group. Learn how we empower designers to create experiences that transform the world at vectorworks.net or follow @Vectorworks.
Originally published in Architectural Record
Originally published in February 2024
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify criteria that defines cohousing and distinguishes it from other types of multifamily residential projects and community-enhanced design.
- Discover how participatory design can be implemented in residential project’s design and project management process to empower future’s residents’ agency and promote socially equitable communities.
- Adapt cohousing design elements like prosocial site design and high-functioning common house to their residential project planning and design to improve social interactions and physical-wellbeing of the residents.
- Develop a better understanding of how a cohousing project is organized, designed, and developed by the cooperation of future residents and architects to promote social and environmental sustainability.
