The internet is full of compelling collective housing projects from around the world. With inflation, a lack of government subsidies, and exclusionary zoning those visions can feel out of reach. What, if anything, can we learn from those projects? What lessons may be relevant to the US context?
This session will walk participants through progressive collective housing models from Europe & Australia that the presenter toured in 2022 & 2023. It will distill their lessons into over twenty actionable principles for: promoting community, honoring resources, decreasing cost, & reducing maintenance in ground-up cohousing communities.
This session is appropriate for: ground-up cohousing communities in formation, architects & designers, and developers.
Instructor: Kyle Barker
Kyle Barker founded Primary Projects, an architecture firm committed to more communal, affordable, and sustainable housing. He’s a member of the Design Advisory Council for the Cohousing Association of the United States, teaches at RISD, and has taught several housing studios at Northeastern University. As the Rotch Traveling Scholarship recipient, he traveled across Europe, Australia, and Japan to study collective housing models. Over the past few years, he’s designed nearly a dozen projects with Croft, a Maine-based prefabricated panel manufacturer, furthering the use of straw as a building material. He’s an active Boston Society for Architecture member and the Small Practices Network Knowledge Community Co-Chair. He holds an MArch from MIT, a BSID from the Univ. of Cincinnati, and is licensed in Massachusetts, New York, Maine, and Michigan.
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