Design Studios

Professor Bill Carswell asked his fall semester 2012 graduate-level architecture students to create post-career residence designs, drawing on published studies related to housing and baby boomer aging issues. Assuming that most boomers will need to downsize, he asked the students to design either a backyard care cottage or an urban apartment. The students produced five backyard care cottage designs and two urban apartment designs.

In the spring 2013 semester, Professor Bruce A. Johnson asked the students in his Healthy and Sustainable Environments II Design Studio to develop an intergenerational village housing master plan. Dividing the class into four teams, he challenged them to create plans for either a downtown Lawrence set of infill urban sites or a sloping sixty-plus-acre tract on the developing edge of West Lawrence.

The students’ designs and plans created in these two studios are available now as a book, New Cities.

New Cities is available from Lulu.

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

 

06 Preface: New Cities

     Dennis Domer

07 Intergenerational Housing

08 Developing a Village Intergenerational Housing Masterplan

     Bruce A. Johnson

12 A Pattern Landscape

     Christine Bono, Stephanie Boyd, Kelly Cheuk, and Jennifer Conforti

18 Village Corridor

     Samantha Auer and Dana Koch

24 Village Green

     Emily Wheeler, Colleen Cassidy, and Michael MacGregor

30 The VillAGE

     Lina Burnett, Marcia Trein, and Sarah Limbocker

36 Post-Career Homeplaces;

36 Backyard Care Cottage

     Bill Carswell

40 Backyard Cottage

     Mariah Trevizo

44 Backyard Cottage

     Mahzad Talaei

46 Backyard Cottage

     Renee Brune

48 Backyard Cottage

     Courtney Fels

50 Urban Apartments

     Rachel Keeven

52 Urban Apartments

     Jesse Bright

New Cities is available from Lulu.