Community Projects

LWB Attends the National Cohousing Conference

LWB Attends the National Cohousing Conference

This year, Joel and I attended the National Cohousing conference in Madison, WI, put on by the Cohousing Association of America along with two current members of the Bloomington Cohousing community to help spread the word about our growing neighborhood and to continue to be active in the cohousing community at large. This was the first in-person conference since the onset of Covid. It was such a pleasure to reconnect with the greater Coho community and to see old friends again. 

On-Site Education with The Project School

On-Site Education with The Project School

Our team has been working with The Project School and Habitat for Humanity on a shed build project that started in 2019. After learning more about housing insecurity, sustainability, community development, and design-centered solutions, TPS began partnering with us to design, customize, and build unique auxiliary backyard structures for Habitat for Humanity homes, in order to help families grow and expand individual life capacity.

Teaching Architecture and Design at the Project School
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Teaching Architecture and Design at the Project School

We are excited to be a part of a new program with the Project School and The Habitat for Humanity to design and build outdoor sheds for Habitat homeowners. Our design team, Alex Minor, Tucker Jaroll, and Ernesto Castaneda visit the students of the Project School every Friday for an hour-long instruction on architecture and the whole world of design. They can be found presenting topics like the design phases, design elements, scale, and measurement, how to interact with a client, how to come up with new architecture concepts and even model making. 

Restoring the Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve Boardwalks

Restoring the Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve Boardwalks

Sycamore Land Trust, one of our favorite community partners, reached out to us to help them design, plan, and execute a partial rebuild of their Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve Boardwalk. We are proud to have been involved with such a special organization and grateful for the opportunity to help give back to the community and help maintain and preserve the environment that nurtures us.

LWB Helps to Bring the Bloomington Creative Glass Center to Bloomington

LWB Helps to Bring the Bloomington Creative Glass Center to Bloomington

We enjoy supporting the local arts in Bloomington and had the pleasure of working on a remodel with Bloomington Center for Creative Glass. The remodel was focused on their “hot shop” where glass will be blown and fused. The project was made more interesting by the fact that the space was previously used for light industrial and several changes had to be planned to support the added power consumption of the various kilns and glass blowing equipment.