Conceptual Communal Home Design The Functional and Efficient, Land-Conscious Way

Although we would all like to forget the absolute failure of 1970's-era communes, such a form of living can actually offer a far higher quality-of-living than middle-class Americans will ever achieve on their own. It isn't even that hard to demonstrate. Ten ordinary/humdrum living rooms just don't compare to the 100-seat movie theater and racquetball court that could be built in their place! Working at h in sub-industrial-scale shops or in a 26-room medical clinic without the need to travel is also held in sharp contrast to the defici es of single-family living! Indeed, high performance tures, which most would find unheard of, carry through to all parts of these homes! Rooftop basketball anyone? This book contains the conceptual floor plans for seven communal homes running from four and six-bedroom, extended-family dwellings to a 21-level mid-rise facility that would fill the core of a stadium! All floor plans are presented in an easy-to-understand, clutter-free format that allows readers to focus on the design's true performance, not its aesthetical appearance! Readers are provided with a wealth of supporting information! Chapter by chapter details describe just how functional, efficient, land-conscious, and even just how downright enjoyable such arrangements can be when homes are specifically designed for such intensified living conditions! No longer do we have to embrace the 'lottery mentality' of foolishly thinking that we can simply win our way to a better life! When we go about life so decisively as this, we can systematically achieve a far higher standard-of-living and reduce land consumption 70 to 98%! With lower level parking garages, flat/usable rooftops, and ahydroponic vegetable growing level, no home could ever get anymore environmentally friendly than this! The demands of our time are absolutely staggering! Rather than trying to 'display' our wealth with fancy homes that get us nowhere, people need to become self-sufficient (near iEldridge, Christopher is the author of 'Conceptual Communal Home Design The Functional and Efficient, Land-Conscious Way', published 2004 under ISBN 9781412018203 and ISBN 141201820X.