CO HOUSING

Cohousing is an intentional community of private homes clustered around shared space.

COHOUSING-INTRODUCTION

1. Cohousing is an intentional community of private homes clustered around

shared space.
2. Each attached or single family home has traditional amenities, including a
private kitchen.
3. Shared spaces typically feature a common house, which may include a large
kitchen and dining area, laundry, and recreational spaces.
4. Shared outdoor space may include parking, walkways, open space, and
gardens. Neighbors also share resources like tools and lawnmowers.
5. Households have independent incomes and private lives, but neighbors
collaboratively plan and manage community activities and shared spaces.
6. The legal structure is typically a homeowner association or housing
cooperative.
7. Community activities feature regularly-scheduled shared meals, meetings,
and workdays.
8. Neighbors gather for parties, games, movies, or other events. Cohousing
makes it easy to form clubs, organize child and elder care, and carpool.
9. Cohousing facilitates interaction among neighbors and thereby provides
social, practical, economic, and environmental benefits.
CHARACTERISTICS

• Cohousing communities are usually structured - in principle and often

in architecture - to encourage frequent interactions and the formation of close
relationships between their members.

• Neighbors are encouraged to cooperate within the community and to care for
their neighbors.

• Cohousing developments are usually intentionally limited to around 20-40

homes and frequently feature large common areas for residents to interact in.

• While cohousing developments are designed to encourage community,

residents usually still have as much personal privacy as they want.

• Residents are able to choose how much they engage in order to find the right
balance between their privacy and the community.
CHARACTERISTICS

• Decision making in cohousing communities is often based on forming a

consensus within the community.

• Residents have shared space which they can all use, usually saving money;
however, residents can still manage their own space to appeal to them.

• Cohousing is similar to Coliving, distinguished by individual units in Cohousing

with personal amenities such as kitchens and bathrooms, while Coliving
involves the communal use of shared bathrooms and common spaces such as
kitchens and living rooms.
EVOLUTION OF CO-HOUSING

1.Started in Denmark-1960
2. KEY ORGANIZER 01: Bodil Graae wrote a newspaper article titled "Children
Should Have One Hundred Parents," spurring a group of 50 families to organize
around a community project
3. In 1967 - 50 families –first cohousing project started at Sættedammen, which
is the oldest known modern cohousing community.
4. In 1968 KEY ORGANIZER 02: Jan Gudmand Høyer published the article "The
Missing Link between Utopia and the Dated Single Family House" , converging a
second group.
EVOLUTION OF CO-HOUSING

5. KEY ORGANIZER 03 : American architects, Kathryn McCamant and Charles

Durrett, develop multi-generational communities.
6. KEY ORGANIZER 04 : Charles Durrett later wrote a handbook on creating
SENIOR COHOUSING.
7. The first community in the United States to be designed, constructed and
occupied specifically for cohousing is Muir Commons in Davis, California
8. Cohousing started to develop in the UK at the end of the 1990
9. The Siheyuan, or quadrangle design of housing in China has a shared courtyard
and is thus similar in some respects to cohousing.
OWNER SHIP OF CO-HOUSING

COHOUSING COMMUNITIES IN THE U.S.

1.House - OWNED BY individual owner
2.common amenities - OWNED BY homeowner association(condominium)s
or a housing cooperative.

COHOUSING COMMUNITIES IN THE EUROPE:

1.House - OWNED BY individual owner
2.common amenities - OWNED BY Community joint building ventures

COHOUSING COMMUNITIES IN THE INDIA:

1.House - OWNED BY individual owner
2.common amenities - OWNED BY Community joint building ventures