Live-work planning and design : zero-commute housing

461 Pages·2012·16.78 MB·English

by  Thomas, Dolan

Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1: Introduction: A Brief History and
Description of Live-Work
The Modem and the Shipping Container
TM
Zero-Commute Living
CHAPTER 2: Defining Live-Work
Live-Work Use Types
Live-Work Proximity Types
Live-Work Project Types
Other Definitions Related to Live-Work
CHAPTER 3: Designing Live-Work: Meeting Its
Unique Needs
The Genesis of Live-Work Design
User Needs and Live-Work Design
Project Types
Design Elements in Live-Work
Accommodating and Relating to the Outside World
Design for Community
Common Live-Work Unit Designs
Development Types
Design of Project Types
CHAPTER 4: The Market for Live-Work
Examining the Market for Live-Work
Marketing Live-Work
CHAPTER 5: Live-Work and Community: A Natural
Marriage
Introduction
Zero-Commute Living
Community Building with Live-Work
Neighborhood Scale
Live-Work Building Types and Community
CHAPTER 6: Live-Work Planning Issues and
Regulatory Solutions
Introduction
The Best Locations for Live-Work
Planning for Live-Work Types as Parsed by Work-Use
Intensity
Planning for Live-Work Types as Parsed by Proximity Type
Live-With Proximity Type
Planning for Live-Work Types as Parsed by Project Type
Development Standards
Social Issues and Planning Reponses
CHAPTER 7: Live-Work Building Code Issues
Regulating This Strange Animal Called Live-Work
Overall Building Life Safety
Codes That Apply within Live-Work Units
Building Code Issues by Project Type
CHAPTER 8: Epilogue
APPENDIX A: Toward a Model Live-Work Planning
Code
Use of Appendix A Tables
APPENDIX B: A Model Live-Work Building Code
System
2009 International Building Code Section 419
Building Code Provisions Not Spelled Out in IBC Section
419
Code Provisions that Apply in Live-Work Renovations Only
Artists' Relaxations
Legalization Process
Shell Construction
Mixed Occupancy
Use of the Model Live/Work Building Code System
APPENDIX C: Live-Work Resources
Books
Websites
Endnotes
Plates
Index
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Live-work planning and design : zero-commute housing / Thomas Dolan.
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For Henry and Emily:
May you live near where you work, may you always love the work you do,
and may you dwell forever in a strong community.
Preface
Live-work is truly a phenomenon of our times, and all indications are that it
will grow increasingly prevalent. Statisticians confirm what we readily
observe: More people are deciding to work at home every day. Technology
allows us to do so, the present economy may force us to do so, and the great
demographic bulges of aging baby boomers and millennials appear to be
voting with their feet in embracing urban forms of living that were
considered marginal twenty-five years ago.
I am fortunate to have spent almost three decades, my entire professional
career, designing live-work projects. It is gratifying to see what was once the
exception become a highly desired building type. At the same time, though, it
is clear that even as live-work has become mainstream and in great demand,
there is a marked lack of both common language and practices, both of which
create confusion and unnecessary effort; many, interested in creating live-
work are unaware that we now have a robust and instructive stock of existing
precedents from which to learn.
My purpose in writing this book is to create an enduring set of definitions
and standards through which live-work can be understood and discussed by a
wide-ranging audience including professionals such as architects, planners,
government officials, and community activists to those who it ultimately
impacts the most: our community dwellers. In my twenty-seven years of
designing live-work, observing live-work projects around the North America,
and studying the subject, I have seen most of the existing variations on Zero
Commute Living.
When I think of live-work as a broad concept, I often recall a man I met on
Dal Lake, in the Vale of Kashmir in the north of India, many years ago. This
man spent a day paddling me in his shikara, or paddle boat, while smoking
his hubbly-bubbly pipe under his cloak—a sort of serape-like swath of woven
wool with a slit for his head and a hood. That evening, this kind man took me
home to meet his family, and his first act upon entering the house was to take
off his cloak and spread it on his bed. It was clear that what he worked in and
what he slept under were one and the same (see Figure P-1).
Figure P-1: Shikara on Dal Lake, in the Vale of Kashmir, in the north of