Lisa Martin wrote a wonderful story in the Crozet Gazette about the little neighborhood we’re trying to build and how it came to be.
Posts Tagged With: Ecovillage
Small Wonder: Neighborhood Concept Blooms in Bamboo Grove
Green Building August 8th Luncheon: Building Neighborhoods for People
Since the inception of the personal automobile, the way that communities are designed has changed considerably, so much so that many neighborhoods are arranged so that people only interact with each other as they pass in their cars. New Urbanism is a movement to undo this by designing walkable places where people and communities flourish; using the tools of cohousing, traditional neighborhood development, pocket neighborhoods and many others designers seek to make new places that are centered around people, not cars. By addressing more than just the built environment, Cohousing takes it a step further and intentionally seeks to rebuild the social fabric one neighborhood at a time.
Speaker: Peter Lazar has lived in the cohousing community “Shadowlake Village” in Blacksburg for many years and is an advocate for the movement on the national level with the Cohousing Association (http://www.cohousing.org). He is currently working on bringing the new 26 home “Emerson Commons” cohousing neighborhood in Crozet to life. Join us this month as Peter highlights the design, benefits, challenges and experiences of living and building neighborhoods centered around people.
Fee: Free for members, $10 nonmembers, Register Here
Lunch will be provided.
DATE AND TIME
Tue, August 8, 2017, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
LOCATION
City Space, 100 5th Street NE
Downtown Mall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
Categories: Communities, Education, Resilience
Tags: Cohousing, Ecovillage, environment, Intentional Living, Neighborhood, Sustainability, Village
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Crozet Pocket Neighborhood #2: St George Cottages
Crozet, Virginia is becoming a vibrant, bustling, livable and walkable center. Within walking distance of all the amenities that this growing town has to offer in the heart of an existing neighborhood is the possibility of yet another community that shifts the focus away from the personal automobile to personal interaction. Click here to see the full design.
If you want to live here, invest in the concept, or help make it a reality please contact us.
Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design
Tags: 22932, 5658 Saint George Ave, 5658 St George, 5658 St George Ave, co-housing, common area, common house, community, Conservation, craftsmanship, Crozet, Ecovillage, for sale, low impact, Neighborhood, pocket neighborhood, property, Site Plan, Sustainability, Village, Virginia, walking trails
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Crozet Pocket Neighborhood
Crozet, Virginia is becoming a vibrant, bustling, livable and walkable center. Within walking distance of all the amenities that this growing town has to offer in the heart of an existing neighborhood is the possibility of a community that shifts the focus away from the personal automobile to personal interaction. Click here to see the full design.
If you want to live here, invest in the concept, or help make it a reality please contact us.
Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design
Tags: 22932, 5665 Park Rd, 5665 Park Road, co-housing, common area, common house, community, Conservation, craftsmanship, Crozet, Ecovillage, for sale, low impact, Neighborhood, pocket neighborhood, property, Site Plan, Sustainability, Village, Virginia, walking trails
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Ecovillage Charlottesville Updates
Check out the latest and greatest plans for the buildings of Ecovillage Charlottesville designed in collaboration with Øesch Environmental Design featuring compact, energy efficient living spaces in the form of flats and townhouses with a large indoor/outdoor shared kitchen and dining area spaces on the rooftop and the utmost attention to livability, natural light, privacy, energy efficiency, and functionality.
Categories: Announcements, Architecture, Communities, Design
Tags: 480 Rio Rd, architecture, community, Ecovillage, Energy, environment, Passive solar building design, Sustainability
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Ecovillage Charlottesville Design Survey
We are trying to understand how to best shape Ecovillage Charlottesville with the community (you) in mind. It would help us out so much if you could fill out our survey about what you would like to see in the community. Thank you so much.
Categories: Announcements, Communities, Design
Tags: 480 Rio Rd, Charlottesville, Ecovillage, low impact, Neighborhood, Tiny Housing
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Ecovillage Presentation
This is a presentation which gives a rough introduction to the Ecovillage Charlottesville project. It was built to be an introduction for UVA’s “Engineering Students Without Borders” student group
Ecovillage Charlottesville Update
The latest version of the Ecovillage Charlottesville site plan is finally here! The project has picked up a ton of traction lately, so keep checking www.facebook.com/EcovillageCharlottesville for status updates.
Here are some renderings for one idea of what could be built… House designs inspired by http://www.rosschapin.com/ and http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
If you feel like drawing your own idea for what the Ecovillage could look like, here are some 8.5×11 printable sketches that make it easy for the ideas to flow onto paper. Please share your ideas!
Categories: Announcements, Communities
Tags: 480 Rio Rd, architecture, Charlottesville, Charlottesville Virginia, community, Ecovillage, low impact, Neighborhood
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Greater Stonehenge Ecovillage: Part 2
Just over a month ago the first of the new site plans for the Greater Stonehenge Ecovillage were released and since then the interest in the project has multiplied. A lot of great people interested in the project, the Virginia Department of Transportation and Albemarle County have given us a lot to think about and a lot of stellar ideas for how to make it better. We have tried our best to show what we’ve learned in this new site plan. If you have any ideas about how to make it even better, please share!
Located just outside the city limits of Charlottesville lies a six acre parcel of land next to the aging Stonehenge Neighborhood; its gentle south-facing slope and existing structures make it the perfect place for something quite a bit different from a typical subdivision: The Greater Stonehenge Ecovillage. Please check out the newest plan, and tell us what you think!
See the details here on The Housing Lab or The Greater Stonehenge Website
The Greater Stonehenge Ecovillage
Located just outside the city limits of Charlottesville lies a six acre parcel of land next to the aging Stonehenge Neighborhood; its gentle south-facing slope and existing structures make it the perfect place for something quite a bit different from a typical subdivision: The Greater Stonehenge Ecovillage. Please check out the newest plan, and tell us what you think!
See the details here on The Housing Lab or The Greater Stonehenge Website
Categories: Communities, Design
Tags: 480 Rio Rd, architecture, Charlottesville, community, Ecovillage, garden, Greater Stonehenge, greenhouse, low impact, Meadowcreek Parkway, Neighborhood, orchard, shared, Site Plan, walking trails
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The Housing Lab 