What are your design principles?

Connection to the outdoors

  • Outdoor porches + yards

    • Story of Wayne and the poppies

  • Threshold spaces—Indoor/Outdoor

    • Story about Toni and the claustrophobic warehouses

  • Community garden spaces

  • Viewsheds out the window

    • Chuck about the seeing out in the field

    • Toni talking about the wetland, knowing we need housing but will miss it

  • Privacy Gradient (“From the most private part of the dwelling, to a semiprivate front terrace, to the common areas, allows residents to choose how private or public they want to be at any given moment and makes transitions more relaxed.”)

    • Public

    • Semi-Public/Private

    • Private

      • Haven’t had this, hard to come by on the streets

      • Talk about how the pallet shelters aren’t insulated for sound so you hear everything…sesso too, Wayne

      • Neal mentioned one day when someone had missed garden club because they were sleeping, trend: people sleep for the first 3 months, making up for all the lost sleep from before

  • Supportive Wellness/Healing Spaces

    • Medicinal gardens

    • Conflict resolution spaces/cool-off zones

    • Quiet spaces/community spaces

    • Exercise spaces/Wellness space/yoga space (walking path, exercise room, laying down)

    • Medical Center

    • Art/Education Center

  • Independent Spaces

    • Storage

    • Bike storage

  • The felt senses — sensorial experiences

    • Rating a space/design based on the senses

      • Plants: edible, tactile, aural/audible (like bamboo in the wind), olfactive/smellable, moving (like grass that’s mounding, uneven: Reiki foot rocks???), temperature, pain/pleasure

      • Wind flow (protection/exposure)

      • Temperature (summer vs winter space vs shoulder seasons)

  • Resiliency spaces

    • Water catchment

    • Garden beds

    • Solar

    • Pollinator gardens + bioswales

  • Community Gathering Spaces

    • Smoke Shacks

    • Kitchens

    • Garden

    • Fire pit

    • Education space

    • Lounge area

    • Shared Kitchen/Dining Hall

  • Pet-Friendly Spaces

    • Dog runs

    • Walking path

    • Park Entrance

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