[Visitaccess] help with the pattern book on visitable housing

[Liz]

Sounds like a great project.  I would recommend visiting Warwick Grove in
Warwick, NY (www.warwick-grove.com <http://www.warwick-grove.com/> ).  It is
a TND project for age 55 and older by the Leyland Alliance.  The home styles
are very attractive.  They have a number of other projects under development
as well (www.leylandalliance.com).

 

Liz Kormos

Kormos and Company LLC

 

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Subject: [Visitaccess] help with the pattern book on visitable housing

 

We have developed a draft table of contents and tentative scope for the
Pattern Book that I described in a previous post. 

 

We are modeling this book on the pattern book for Habitat for Humanity being
developed by the Institute for Classical Architecture, UDA and others. Eric
Osth from UDA will be meeting with me in early July to discuss how we can
share information and examples. 

 

Thus summer, I hired three students to work on the layout for the book, the
introductory sections and some initial designs.  We will do all the 3D
illustrations in Sketchup and post them on the web for comment. 

 

By the end of the summer, we hope to have the introductory sections drafted,
the table of contents and scope finalized, about 4-5 examples of the house
designs done and all the examples and styles identified. Then, my Fall
graduate design studio will work on the rest of the examples and put
selected houses into context using real world sites.  We hope to have a
complete draft done by the end of the Fall semester.

 

Since there are endless variations of house forms, we need to narrow the
scope to a manageable number. So, we are asking for your help. Please review
the attached documents. We would like your input on the styles we should use
for the various types of buildings - see the instructions in the scope
document. We would like your responses at the end of next week. Please also
send along any photos or plans of houses that we can redesign or use in the
book. They should be good designs but they don't have to be accessible
because we will redesign and redraft them for the purposes of the book.

 

I am going to have my students fan out during a week in October to do field
trips to New Urbanist projects. Since it doesn't cost that much more to
visit LA than Chicago, they can go anywhere in the country. Please suggest
communities that you think they should visit and, if you have information on
contacts with the developer, planners or designers, please send them along
also. 

 

Finally, if you are interested in volunteering to meet with a student team
and/or help them organize their visit to a project in your neighborhood,
please indicate that as well. 

 

If you have any additional suggestions or advice of any sort, please let me
know or post it to the list. 

 

Thanks very much for your help. 

 

Edward Steinfeld, Arch.D., AIA

Professor of Architecture and Director

Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access School of Architecture
and Planning

University at Buffalo, State University of New York

 

Tel. 716 829 3485 (x327)

Fax. 716 829 3861

email address:arced at buffalo.edu

IDEA Center website: www.ap.buffalo.edu/idea 

 

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