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.