A behind-the-scenes look at one of the practical challenges of collaborative living – where to park the cars. The Ginn Road team shares their group decision to locate parking on the highest part of the property, and outlines plans to upgrade it into a proper car park that’s convenient, unobtrusive, and in keeping with the site’s eco-friendly design.
Transcript
You know, you never know what are going to be the problems of trying to be collaborative. And one of them has been: where do we park the cars? Because everybody has a car, and we didn’t really plan on this being a motel where you park your car right next to your room.
So we’ve ended up with a group decision to have the car park on the highest part of the whole property, which is right there. And sooner or later we’ll make a proper car park out of it – we haven’t got there yet. But as you can see, this is a good place to park cars, right in front of the tank, which works from a bore and which has all the environmental extras to make this an environmentally friendly, water-reduced house.
But we also want to make sure that we have car parking that doesn’t look hideous, car parking that doesn’t get in the way of anybody, car parking that’s convenient. We’re doing some upgrades to make sure that works. And that’s where we’re at right now – working on the gardens, working on the car park, and working on some alterations to the building that make it eco-friendly.
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