A group of individuals came together to build an intentional co-housing community to create a collaborative and supportive aging-in-place environment. The design team led this project for individual dwellings, common culinary and crafting spaces, a future caretaker space, and the exterior design on this relatively low slope site along the Alameda Ridge geological formation in Northeast Portland.

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The buildings are arranged to maximize interior daylight, to balance rooftop shade and sun zones to allow for solar panels, and to create privacy from both the adjacent streets, and in between the community’s common spaces and individual patios at each dwelling. Additionally, the buildings are clustered around a common green, within which are a series of outdoor rooms: a shade structure that blocks hot western light; an outdoor cooking zone and meeting area; covered outdoor workshop-studio spaces, and a regenerative oak micro-habitat located at the north, which also acts as both a privacy from neighbors as well as a biodiverse backdrop for the outdoor spaces.