2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Communities

Post-Pandemic Nomadic Cohousing

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Thomas Fisher

The COVID-19 pandemic showed what post-pandemic life might be like: a digitally enabled existence of working, learning, and shopping from home, with most goods and services delivered to our door. The pandemic also high- lighted the importance of having a “bubble,” a community of people who we can trust and depend on for our health and safety. This paper describes two experiments in extremely affordable, post-pandemic housing. Both projects, one in partnership with the health community and the other with the faith community, represent a “community-first” approach to housing: accommodating a small group of people who care for each other and who occupy small, mobile units clustered around outdoor space and a shared common house. Such nomadic co-housing represents a new way of affordable living in the post-pandemic era and a form of housing old as humanity itself.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.21.31

Volume Editors
Rico Quirindongo & Georgeen Theodore

ISBN
978-1-944214-39-5