Cohaus is a community of people living in a twenty-unit housing development in Grey Lynn, Auckland. We designed and financed the buildings ourselves. Our vision was to build affordable housing using smart design and innovative technology to create a community where it’s easy to live comfortably while minimising resource use. We know others are interested in our journey so we maintain this site so you can get in touch and find links to various writings about Cohaus. We hope this will help others to build alt
We know others are interested in our journey, so we’re working closely with The Urban Advisory in a participatory research project to document the challenges and successes of our co-housing project. Through documenting our project as a real-world case study, we hope to help others to build alternative housing models around Aotearoa New Zealand
June 2023: Our architects Thom and Helle of Studio Nord won an architecture award for Cohaus. Well done!