Opportunity for crunchy-con architects

I thought they were trying to plant new missions?

Christ J. Kamages (http://www.cjkdesign.com/) is The Man where this kind of planning for Orthodox churches is concerned. All Saints in Bloomington, IN has ~24 acres and we're asking a similar set of questions (although no one here is discussing becoming the kind of intentional community St. John is); we're a few years yet from really being able to make use of what he can offer, but he came and talked to us about a year and a half ago, and he knows what he's talking about. Our first steps for now are doing things that don't require that kind of planning--we're almost done with our cemetery, for example.

The question I've always asked at All Saints (and it's a question I posed to Fr. Marc, too, when I met him) is--why would a skete not be a good use of at least some of the land? In principle, nobody ever seems to think that's a bad idea, but the practical question always seems to be, "Okay, from where do we get the monks?" The thing about the Antiochian Archdiocese is that there aren't exactly hundreds prospective monastics beating down their doors--but is this a question of "if you build it, they will come?"

Richard

Some of the best architects in the country have already done most of the work. Please see:

Habitat Congress Building America:
VERY COLD CLIMATE CASE STUDY
for Juneau, Alaska

www.buildingamerica.gov

I hope you can do this book. I'm no crunchy con, nor even a tradcon, as exemplified by its practitioners, but a book that looked into some communitarian religious experiments would be of great interest to me.

I doubt this is what the folks in Alaska are looking for, but we visited a B&B at this community a few months ago. It was interesting--- to us, it seemed to try create a forced sense of community. The philosophy was very into maintaining green space. And it really has succeeded there- it's minutes from downtown Atlanta, but it looks as if you're in the absolute middle of po-dunk junction! Link is as follows minus the spaces.

http: //www. serenbecommunity.com /home.html

Thanks,
Luci