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California recognizes Cohousing as a more Sustainable Living Environment

Submitted by Bob Miller on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 14:27
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By Bob Miller

The theme of the 2012 National Conference is “Creating Sustainable Neighborhoods; Learning from the Cohousing Experience.” Governor Jerry Brown of California recently endorsed the concept of cohousing as a more sustainable living environment.

The Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Awards are made each year by the Governor of California. This year Jerry Brown was at the awards ceremony to recognize McCamant and Durrett Architects of Wolf Creek Lodge as one of the recipients for 2011. The awards are “given only to individuals, organizations, and businesses who exemplify exceptional leadership for protecting and enhancing the environment while at the same time promoting economic growth”.

Architect:Barrett Studio Architects

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Barrett Studio Architects
1944 20th Street
Boulder, Colorado 80302
Phone: 303.449.1141
Email: bsa [at] barrettstudio [dot] com

Architect: Studio G Architects

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Studio G Architects
The Brewery
179 Boylston Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: 617-524-5558
Fax: 617-524-5544
E-mail: gails [at] studio-g-architects [dot] com

2009 Featured Architects

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register nowOn June 24-28, 2009, our Annual National Cohousing Conference will feature a number of Top Cohousing Architects - some very well-known, established green architects with many built sustainable communities - and some whose emerging practices are generating new ways of looking at Cohousing and green architecture. We are also sharing the work of some architecture graduate students who are addressing the challenges of cohousing design for their very first time.

Architect: Bryan Bowen Architects, p.c.

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bryan bowen architects is a collaborative formed around a shared desire to align the goals of social and environmental sustainability in projects which are accessible to all.

We specialize in affordable, high efficiency community design with an emphasis on site planning, fostering long term community social health. We believe that community is the secret ingredient to enduring sustainability and that a solid fiscal approach, sound architecture and planning, and durability are mandatory.

Bryan Bowen leads bb:a and approaches work with a sense of humility and humor. Bryan has been a practicing architect since 1995, dedicated to the design of neighborhoods and sexy eco-buildings, all with the vision of making baby steps towards a sustainable permaculture planet. He is also a member of Wild Sage Cohousing in Boulder.

McCamant & Durrett honored with Best of Senior Housing Award

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McCamant & Durrett received the received the Silver Award for Best of Senior Living by the National Association of Home Builders at its annual 50+ Housing Symposium and awards dinner on May 20 in New Orleans. The award was for Silver Sage Village, a senior cohousing project in Boulder, Colorado, NAHB is the nation’s largest association of builders, with 235,000 members. Competing against hundreds of firms across America, McCamant & Durrett’s design was rated by the NAHB as one of the country’s best senior housing. Firm principal Charles Durrett was on hand to receive the award, “We are excited to see our ideas become working realities in communities shaped by residents, like Silver Sage.”

The firm also won a Golden Nugget award for the Best Affordable Project of 30 Acres or More for their Sacramento Senior Homes.

Nevada City Cohousing Earns National Award

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The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) has announced that McCamant & Durrett Architects are the recipients of the Silver 2008 Energy Value Housing Award for their Nevada City Cohousing project. The NAHB searches for the best in the country for the top honors in energy-efficiency, design and innovation.

On receiving the award, firm principal Chuck Durrett responded by stating, “We are honored to have been selected from a field of 500 other projects." Katie McCamant, M&D's other principal, said, "What is key for me is to create walkable communities where people use less of the earth’s resources while living a better quality of life."

Neighborhoods on purpose

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by Dave Wann, Harmony Cohousing

I used to have contingency plans for where I wanted to live in another five years. For a while, it was New Zealand, then upstate New York, then a small town in western Colorado that doesn’t feel the pace of a fresh-air-challenged metro area like Denver. Where would I try to be comfortable next? Where would I try to meet as many needs as possible with a minimum amount of stress?

Architect Laura Fitch honored

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Cohousing architect Laura Fitch of Kraus-Fitch Architects in Amherst, MA was given the BAC Distinguished Alumni Award from the Boston Architectural College in November 2006. The primary reason that the nominating committee chose Fitch was what they viewed as her progressive work with cohousing communities.

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