Education Centre

The neighbourhood will feature an education centre/common house as the social centre of neighbourhood.

The 225 square metre house is usable by all residents as a social space.

It also is used as an education centre for promoting community development by establishing pocket neighbourhoods.

Peterborough Neighbourhood Education Centre (Architectural Design App's Impression)

The Common House faces north with a large lounge and veranda

The Centre of the Neighbourhood

The common house is placed at the entrance of the pocket neighbourhood so everyone has to walk past it, and can check out if anything is happening.

Residents have a weekly social gathering and meal in the dining room, which includes a commercial kitchen.

The common house includes a laundrette, which we have purposely placed in the prime sunniest spot on the site, as it really is the social hub, and homemakers are the centre of community. None of the residences has a laundry.

Extending Private Houses

The common house expands the private houses by giving access to:

a huge social space
a large veranda
a second lounge
a kitchen
upstairs activities room
kids space
office

Residents can use the house for movie nights, celebrations, band practice, study, meetings, or as their local cafe.

Common House Ground Floor Plan

Education Centre Upstairs - Activities Room

The centre will provide education and support for developing new pocket neighbourhoods by:

providing advice, information and resources
facilitating a visioning day for designing your new pocket neighbourhood
provide a free draft site concept plan based on applying cooperative housing principles to your site
provide a meeting space for groups establishing new pocket neighbourhoods

Guest Room

A guest room will allow people interested in experiencing neighbourhood design to stay.

Residents are also able to use it to put up visitors and family.

Education Centre - Common House viewed from the street