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BuildingCircles
Organization
Creating affordable
and sustainable, nature-integrated homes for independent living
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Imagine a place ...
where ...
you can live affordably and sustainably,
while feeling safe and comfortable.
where ...
you can reside in an intentional
adult community that supports independent living and "aging-in-place"
without fear of being prematurely uprooted in later years.
In the BuildingCircles communities,
residents will know they are part of something important. Every day
they will be helping to solve the world-wide housing crisis by proving
out advanced, sustainable, low-cost community housing models that can be
replicated globally.
BuildingCircles Organization is seeking
landowners
with vision who are excited by this earth-friendly and people-friendly
project. One landowner option is to lease long-term to an organization
that manages these rental homes. This could provide revenue while
preserving the land for future generations.
Our advanced living
building designs will help achieve harmony with nature while providing
affordable comfort and security for those who share the dream.
The futuristic renderings
and contemporary photographs on this web site are by Robert Bornn except
as noted.
These images are to help
launch your imagination about a new way of living. The BuildingCircles
homes will represent a convergence of beautiful and advanced -- yet proven
-- approaches to sustainable and nature-integrated habitation.
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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Introduction
to BuildingCircles
"We do not seek to imitate nature,
but rather to find the principles she uses."
-- R. Buckminster Fuller |
BuildingCircles Organization is
designing homes that are AdvancedGreen, while reasonable in cost.
With award winning professionals our development
team is combining architectural form with sustainable, nature-integrated
development. All of our homes will incorporate universal
design and a unique approach to affordable building for independent
living in adult communities.
As we age many many of us will seek
advanced, green housing solutions that allow us to gracefully "age
in place." Compact, single story dwellings utilizing universal
design will permit adults to transition into assisted living without losing
their cherished homes.
BuildingCircles Organization will
work with landowners who wish to build nature-integrated, easy-to-care-for
homes for lease to others or for themselves. The floor plans on this
site are for a representative, 2-person, 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 1000 sq.
ft. house. |
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BuildingCircles Community Home
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1000
sq. ft. example
Illustrative Site Plan Courtesy of
Barbara Oakrock of Oakrock Design
Studio
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Our
illustrations on this web site are meant to be inspirational "jumping off
points" for your imagination. Through an established "charette" process
these ideas will coalesce and result in a highly personalized approach
to housing design.
While BuildingCircles Organization
is initially focusing on elder housing, the BCO housing designs, solar
energy, water systems, and land use planning concepts can be adapted to
any group's housing needs.
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Floor Plan #1
BuildingCircles Community Home
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1000 sq. ft.
Sample Floor Plan by Nancy
Henderson, AIA, LEED, AP
(click picture for printable version
of floor plan)
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Adult
Communities for Independent Living
In time, these advanced, BuildingCircles
community "open-cluster" designs will become building blocks for more widespread,
domestic and international housing. We plan to facilitate affinity-based,
older adult, communities for independent living based on these affordable,
AdvancedGreen,
nature-integrated homes. The adult communities we build now will
be viable for people in their coming elder years and allow more graceful
aging in place. These projects will demonstrate that community building
using sustainable and universal design will serve individuals with special
needs of all ages and will result in stronger communities for society. |
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
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Ultimately, with motivated people,
available land, and community support, older adults can build cooperative
communities. The communities we envision will be based on environmentally
and human-friendly land planning, structures, and relationships. |
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Noteworthy:
Aging and Disability Services, King County, WA
''Quiet
Crisis: Age Wave Maxes Out Affordable Housing, King County 2008-2025" published
2009 through the collaboration of six public agencies, Cedar River Group,
LLC, and others (including Senior Housing Report, Senior Housing Report
Appendix, and more. http://www.agingkingcounty.org/housing.htm
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
Portal-1
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1800 sq.
ft. homes with Solar
Harvester ponds
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
Portal-2
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1800 sq.
ft. homes with Solar
Harvester ponds
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
Portal-6
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1800 sq.
ft. homes with Solar
Harvester ponds
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
Portal-7
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1800 sq.
ft. homes with Solar
Harvester ponds
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BuildingCircles Community Homes
Portal-8
2-Bedroom, 2-Bath, 1800 sq.
ft. homes with Solar
Harvester ponds
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Contact
Information
Robert Bornn and Laura Worth
BuildingCircles Organization
P.O. Box 2443
Vashon Island, WA 98070
(206) 463-4284
robert@buildingcircles.org
laura@buildingcircles.org
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Sunset over Quartermaster Harbor
Vashon-Maury Island, Washington
A vision of our future
begins with preservation
of the earth.
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