Our campuses are designed to break down some of the traditional barriers to interacting with your neighbors that are typical of any apartment building or a classic suburban subdivision. Everything is designed to break down barriers to feeling like you are part of a real community – from the spacing of the home’s large livable front facing porches to the constellations of neighborhoods arrayed around the Great House and greenspaces.  

Pocket neighborhood design specifically has provided a good deal of inspiration for our campuses.  These are a specific type of planned community with grouping of smaller residences, often around a courtyard or common garden, designed to promote a close knit sense of community and neighborliness with an increased level of contact. Some of the considerations include reducing or segregating parking and roadways, the use of shared buildings and outdoor spaces that promote social activities, and homes with smaller square footage built in close proximity to one another. Features in the homes are designed to maximize space and can use built-in shelves and porch areas, encouraging time spent outside with a focal point around a greenspace instead of parking areas. Environmental considerations often play a role in the planning of pocket neighborhoods, and those advocating them promote their design as an alternative to the sprawl, isolation, expense, and commuter and automobile focus of many larger homes in suburban developments. 

Our campuses are designed to break down some of the traditional barriers to interacting with your neighbors that are typical of any apartment building or a classic suburban subdivision. Everything is designed to break down barriers to feeling like you are part of a real community – from the spacing of the home’s large livable front facing porches to the constellations of neighborhoods arrayed around the Great House and greenspaces.  

Pocket neighborhood design specifically has provided a good deal of inspiration for our campuses.  These are a specific type of planned community with grouping of smaller residences, often around a courtyard or common garden, designed to promote a close knit sense of community and neighborliness with an increased level of contact. Some of the considerations include reducing or segregating parking and roadways, the use of shared buildings and outdoor spaces that promote social activities, and homes with smaller square footage built in close proximity to one another. Features in the homes are designed to maximize space and can use built-in shelves and porch areas, encouraging time spent outside with a focal point around a greenspace instead of parking areas. Environmental considerations often play a role in the planning of pocket neighborhoods, and those advocating them promote their design as an alternative to the sprawl, isolation, expense, and commuter and automobile focus of many larger homes in suburban developments. 

The Campus concept is meant as an alternative to the sprawl, isolation, expense, and commuter and automobile focus of many larger homes in suburban developments. In selecting building materials, building practices and technology, our aspiration is to bring in as many additional sustainable building and management practices into the fold as we can.  We’re going through the (sometimes painful) process making our preferences for building and operations align with the budget in a time when budgets are hard to pin down.  We will have more on the specifics in the coming months.

As we finalize budgets, landscaping, building materials and building methods we’ll have more to share on how the build and operations aims to meet certain standards for energy use, water use and environmental impact. We will also share what we are doing to both preserve as well as build upon the natural landscape of old growth trees which is one of the most impressive elements of the Campus.  Look for an announcement on this topic soon.    

Each home will come with a fully covered, assigned parking space a short distance from your front door. We often see traditional residential neighborhoods with wide streets and walls of garage doors – a paradise built for cars. While there is a convenience associated with large, attached garages, prioritizing the car this way makes connection a bit more difficult. We intentionally created some small distance between our homes and the parking areas so that we could create a distinct “campus-like” feel within the community, as well as make it more enjoyable to go for walks around the neighborhood or pop into a friend’s home. With at least one assigned spot per home the typical walk to a car should be an average of 30 seconds (we truly did the math on this with typical walking speeds). There will be plenty of carts and other tools around to help you transport items whenever needed and staff can of course help when the need is larger. For those who can’t live without an attached garage, there are plenty of traditional housing opportunities in the area and we can even refer you to some we think are wonderful!

We’ve thoughtfully designed each home to make the best, most efficient use of available space with storage and built-ins. That said, we understand that people have stuff.   Maybe lots of it.  In addition to a flexible partnership with a neighboring self-storage facility (right down the street) where you can very affordably store items you won’t need regular access to, there will be options for you to add-on storage units adjacent to your home if you’d like. Let us know what your storage needs are and we’ll figure out something bespoke together.