Site Design Workshop

After a site is procured, we use a 2-day, 2-evening Site Programming Workshop to establish future residents´ goals, activities, and criteria for the site layout, especially for the community’s outdoor spaces framed by the houses, the common house, other outdoor activity areas, car and bicycle parking. We use a thorough programming process to define the activities and spaces that will make the community work, a process that is essential for maintaining an orderly and cost-effective design process later in the project, and a process that provides for a successful community long after the honeymoon has worn off.

We work with the group to generate and "test" possible site plans that will optimize the qualities of the particular site and best fit the program we’ve defined, and we build consensus on a site layout. The Site Programming workshop finalizes the residents’ goals and criteria for the layout of their cohousing community, and the resulting site plan can then be turned into construction documents.

“McCamant & Durrett took us from a sundry of opinions to a single condensed site plan that we all love.” –cohousing resident

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