Nevada City architecture firm wins award for cohousing project

McCamant & Durrett Architects of Nevada City designed the Silver Sage cohousing project in Boulder, Colo.

Silver Sage will be featured in American Institute of Architects’s "Design for Aging Review." McCamant & Durrett Architects designed the project for Wonderland Hill Development Company of Boulder, Colo., and its associated architecture firm, Bryan Bowen Architects.

McCamant & Durrett Architects of Nevada City has designed an award-winning cohousing project in Boulder, Colo. The Silver Sage Village Senior Cohousing recently received the Award of Merit for affordable senior living by the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
  Silver Sage will be featured in AIA’s Design for Aging Review. McCamant & Durrett Architects  designed the project for Boulder’s Wonderland Hill Development Company and associated architecture firm, Bryan Bowen Architects.
  AIA’s Design for Aging Review competition honors senior housing projects that demonstrate innovative solutions while improving seniors’ quality of life and remaining affordable and sustainable.

  Besides being published in the book Design for Aging Review, award-winning projects will be featured from 2009 through 2011 in traveling exhibitions and educational programs showcasing conscientious architecture for senior living.

 Illustration boards delineating the project in great detail will be on display in Washington D.C. at the AIA National Headquarters for the next two years. Silver Sage will serve as a model for senior housing throughout the U.S., exemplifying residential lifestyles that support meaningful, healthful and satisfying elder years.
  Silver Sage Village Senior Cohousing is a 16-unit senior cohousing community on 0.83 acres in Boulder that was completed in 2007. It includes 16 ownership units, six of which are permanently affordable units (80% of AMI per the City of Boulder affordable housing program). 
  Silver Sage Village Senior Cohousing is part of a trend toward less conventional solutions for aging with independence within communities, or as architect Charles Durrett so aptly puts it “the challenge of aging non-institutionally.”

  Durrett coined the term cohousing — people buying homes in a community they plan and run together — for the type of communities he experienced as an architecture student in Denmark during the 1980s.
 To learn more about McCamant & Durrett Architects, visit www.cohousingco.com or call 530-265-9980.