A number of architecturally bold, collaborative housing projects have been built in the past half century, based on ideas by future residents and realized in a participatory design process. This book revisits one pioneering grassroots development, the Wandelmeent, the first cluster cohousing built in Holland. Part of the famous Dutch experimental housing of the 1970s, the Wandelmeent creates small clusters, sharing a common kitchen and dining room, within a larger community of 50 households. With aspirations of close neighboring, the residents have created private, semi-private, common and...
A number of architecturally bold, collaborative housing projects have been built in the past half century, based on ideas by future residents and real...