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| Milagro Cohousing Community |
Milagro, which means miracel in Spanish, is practicing a cool alternative to automobiles in their cohousing communtiy. Located in the Tucson Mountains, this community is only 12 minutes from downtown Tucson, AZ. There are "twenty-eight, energy efficient, passive solar, adobe homes" located on this 43 acre site. Only 3 of 28 homes in this community are accessible by automobile. Broad footpaths are designed into this pedestrian friendly community in order to accommidate the electric golf car, as seen in the image below, to carry small loads and groceries from their cars to their homes. This information, plus more, about Milagro cohousing community please see thier website at:
http://www.milagrocohousing.org/milagro.htm.
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| Electric car used by Milagro residents |
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| Project 2- Milagro Cohousing Precedent Sheet |
I used this particular cohousing community as one of my precidents for project two in Grad Studio III. The poster can be seen to the right.
typo in your text: there's no 'i' in precedents. (you got it right on the sheet).
ReplyDeleteThanks for documenting the environmental innovations at Milagro. The biggest factor, though, doesn't appear in any of your photos: the people who make it possible by choosing to live differently and to give up some privacy to gain lots of community, while still maintaining the choice.
Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach
Planning for Sustainable Communities
at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing