Loren Wood Builders recently had the opportunity to host a group of Edgewood Junior High School 6th graders as part of the “Tour of Opportunity” as part of the Success School curricula — sponsored by The Greater Bloomington Area Chamber of Commerce.
We were so happy to play a part again in this year’s Habitat for Humanity Women Build. Our crew of women from LWB, Bailey Swan, Priscilla Rocha, Rachel Henry, Jonelle Gross, Natalie Foy, and Sarah Menefee all volunteered over the course of two weeks and helped to build homes for two deserving families, with Natalie and Sarah working as crew leaders on the build.
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.
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.
We were recently contacted by the Middle Way House, to help them with their “Doorway to Dreams” Project. Their Rise and Shine daycare was open, however their entryway was lacking organizational space and the ability to store items.
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.