Ohana Village
feasibility study for new homes and micro neighborhoods

Feasibility Study for a group whose goal is to build an inclusive, fully accessible, and supportive community for people of all ages and abilities, family makeup, incomes, and backgrounds, with a focus on support for adults with neurodiversity and I/DD to be fully integrated within the neighborhood and community. The qualities of inclusive and fully accessible design will be considered throughout all public, semi-private, and private spaces; navigation and transportation; all buildings and facilities, especially the social infrastructure of “intentional neighboring.”

Vision:

● Recognize barriers across the built environment that prevent full participation in the community and remove them.

● Design the built environment to create opportunities for both planned and unintentional connections as people move throughout the neighborhood.

● Increase density through intentional spaciousness and planned proximity to create a fully navigable neighborhood — walkable, wheelchair-friendly, and built for neighborly connection

● Promote healthy, energy-efficient design and construction.

● Incorporate village features for shared experience, daily relationship, care, and cooperation— inside and out.

● Create a beautiful and contiguous neighborhood of quality homes offered at low-income, affordable, middle-income income and market rate prices

Building Program:

● Homes to range in size from 900 to 1400 square feet with two- and three-bedroom homes.

● Four micro-neighborhoods of 9-10 homes (a mix of detached and connected) and facing and surrounding a common green area for daily resident connection

● One three-bedroom Supportive Living home at the heart of each micro-hood

● 2 Co-Living buildings near the common house

● Common House at the center of the community with safe pedestrian access.

Site Program

● Natural gathering nodes for neighborly engagement

● Vegetable and flower gardens with accessible raised beds and accessible pathways

● Sensory and meditation spaces

● Play area with accessible structures

● Grassy gathering area near the common house (for games, gatherings, sun, etc.), benches nearby,y and in the microhood “central park” area